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Invalid media type reading drive C

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Name: Chris McDonnald
Date: July 12, 2002 at 12:07:37 Pacific
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I get this message at boot when I try to access C drive

Invalid media type reading drive C
Abort, Retry, Fail?

I just want to format this drive but i cant access anything on it



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Name: Chris M
Date: July 12, 2002 at 13:02:41 Pacific
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What I had to do was go into cmos and change boot sequence to boot from floppy first than cd rom than hdd

heres the kicker

I had to use a windows 98 boot disk to access the format application

the steps i did after boot were this

A:>fdisk /mbr
A:>fdisk
delete partition
establish a new partition
A:>format c:
than eject floppy
reboot and boot from cd rom
there it goes.

Fixed
Hope some of you can use this



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