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When i try to reboot w/win98 startup disk I get the message that win98 has detected that drive c does not contain a valid fat or fat32 partition. It then list 3 possible causes and says the diagnostic tools have been loaded to drive c. I should have a c and d drive as well as a and my cdrom which should be e drive. Please help!
It seems that you need to use fdisk to partition the hard drives. What was/is supposed to be installed on the drives, and why are you booting from a startup disk?
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I have seen several instances of the Fats being corrupted lately. I suspect a virus. If the two Fats are indeed corrupted, That means a format of the hard drive and a reinstall of windows.
To make sure, before I did anything drastic, I would boot from a Win98 floppy and run scandisk on the drive.
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I have win98se. I have tried fdisk and it says runtime error r6003, integer divided by 0. When I run scandisk it says there were no errors detected.
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dont know what win98 bootdisk you are useing but it has made a ramdisk as c: and your C:,D;,E: drives have been moved up on to d,e and f.
boot up and do a dir c: and see if you can tell what the diagnotic program is and run it.
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If you boot from a floppy and type DIR C:
You should get another FAT error message if they are really corrupted. If you see all the folders and files, it was a false error.
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It looks like your C: drive is completely corrupted. I would suggest downloading a diagnostic from the hard drive manufacturer's web site.
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no, and I typed setramd.bat and it said win98 was unable to create a temporary drive for the diagnostic tools due to less than sufficient extended memory.
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You may have a drive overlay on the hard drive. If you boot from a floppy without the overlay installing the partition will not be seen as valid.
On a normal boot from the HD do you get an option 'press CTRL to boot from floppy' or something like that? If so you have an overlay. Since the overlay is on the HD the bios must go to the HD first to load it. Once the overlay is installed, then you can boot from a floppy. But if you have a disk in the floppy drive to begin with, the bios never accesses the HD and the overlay doesn't install.
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in ref. to post 8 and 9- if the date and time are wrong in the bios than you have a bad battery and when you put in a new one all likely will work. i bet the hdd infor in bios is also wrong, so not reading hdd correctly, therfo the curupt fat.
if ref to post 6 and 9- the ramdisk (setramd.bat) is already loaded in memory so you can not make a 2nd one, you would just run the diag. programs from the c: ramdisk!
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If you have a tower/desktop, it will be on the motherboard. It'll look like a large watch battery.
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