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Name: Thord Johansson Date: December 29, 1998 at 14:25:26 Pacific
Comment:
I tried to compress my c drive with the built in tool. It stoped at 25 %. After that my computer will not start. It hangs in the start up sequence. Before I did a backup of the hole c drive. I have tried to use that backup but my computer still dont start. What shall I do ?
Name: Ole Martin Thu Date: December 29, 1998 at 15:31:56 Pacific
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You should format your drive, because if drivespace stopped and you can`t start your machine, the mbr record on the drive is damaged. Then there is only one thing to do. If you have a dos startup disk (win98). You should use this to load your cd rom drive and get into DOS, and then "format c:\" Insert the win98 CD and reinstall...
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Name: Thor Date: September 16, 2000 at 10:29:51 Pacific
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I just got a new computer and I am installing windows98 on it, but I have lost the windows98 start-up disk. When I try to make a new one with my old computer it says that "*.cab" is corrupt and won't make the start up disk. I don't want to reformat my old computer before my new one is fixed. So I was wondering if it is possible to download a start up disk from the internet? Thanks
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Summary: i have a pentium 100,32 mb ram and a 36x cdrom drive and windows98.My problem is that when i run scandisk ,i can scan my d: but when i scan c: then it gives a error saying "this drive has been locked ...
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