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Invalid media type reading drive C

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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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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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