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have corrupt hard drive please help
Name: maglad Date: November 14, 2003 at 12:30:07 Pacific OS: win xp pro CPU/Ram: amd ath 1.8gzh/512 ram
Comment:
ive recently contracted the nachi worm virus and tried top download norton to fix problem but installation didnt complete so when i try to get on win xp os ithe comp auto crashes and cant make any commands. ive been advised to repair win xp but dont have disk, only disk i have is win 98.... so how to formatt hd and reinstall win 98 so i can use comp till i get win xp disk. thanks if you can help
Name: Steve Date: November 14, 2003 at 13:15:40 Pacific
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I don't see why you can't use an emergency start up disk (Win 98) and make sure bios is set so that it boots to the A drive. Let it start in dos and come eventually to a A prompt. Choose Format C (C being your primary drive) and format entire disk. Then (if you used the emergency start up disk generated from Windows 98) you should be able to select D (CD Rom drive using generic Oak Technology CD drivers) and put your Win 98 CD in and install Win 98.
Good luck. Sounds like you've had a time of it.
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Response Number 2
Name: doc Date: November 14, 2003 at 13:29:50 Pacific
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See if you can do anything with this one, I used both nortons and this one.
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