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will not reformat, was adding ha second hard drive and fdisked the wrong drive. now I can't get either to format. get invalid media message. anyone HELP
hello you might try removeing one hard drive.and concentrate on that one first
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Name: guru Date: March 21, 2002 at 11:10:46 Pacific
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it sounds like you removed the partitions without making new ones. use fdisk. choose large disk support and choice 4 to check the partitions. if neccesary re-create the primary partition and make it active. reboot using the floppy boot disk and format c:
exactly what I did remove one hard drive,got an extract file from MS and formatted but can not use HP restore disc with me. have been able to load w98 but would like to go back to ME. HP explanation of a vanilla start is loosing me
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