Summary: Hi All, Tried the Freedos sys.com and that does not like the Windows ME system. I tried to use it to boot from an Iomega Zip drive to ensure it would ...
Summary: You may not have a virus at all. When Win98 installs it writes it's own boot sector to the hard drive. It's telling you that it cannot do this, probab...
Summary: Go into the bios of your computer and double check to make sure it is set to boot from the hard disk. I'm not sure exactly where you should look as a...
Summary: I'm posting this in hope that it will help others. Background, i work for a large firm and look after our corporate PC image. I use sysprep so we only...
Summary: Zeb, Guest.exe is for Iomega zip drives, not USB hard drives. John go to darkehorse.web.com and post your question on the forums there. Perhaps some...
Summary: Shannon, you may have 'infected' your boot disk (and others!), which would pass the virus back to the new boot sector on your hard drive. If so, y...
Summary: I am trying to resurect my mates computer. windows directory got corrupted scan disk restored it to dir00001 etc. It contains emails and docs that ar...
Summary: I managed to hose the boot sector of my extended partitions d, e & f. While moving files from on to the other and resizing I noticed after a particul...
Summary: unable to format Hard drive 4.3 GB, 8.4 GB, 2.1 GB and 1.2 Gb of seagate. please send me latest free software for the same and oblige. thanks for co...
Summary: To make a hard drive except files first it must have a Fat partition which is active, see: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;255...
Summary: Hi, First of all run FDISK one more time and make sure your C: primary partition set as active (as d_lagneau said). If not - set it. And then if this ...
Summary: I am in the process of creating a boot disk which was successfull. I would like to possibly take files from the boot disk and copy them to the hard d...
Summary: hi i have a usb hard drive and would like to boot win98 off of it. i installed the OS and can boot fin when i remove the drive from the usb case and u...
Summary: ok, i have an ibm 760l thinkpad laptop and i had dos and i tried to put win 95 but it said saomething about a parttition and i didnt know what that w...
Summary: Before you erase everything, boot from A drive and use: fdisk /mbr .This will refresh the boot sector on the hard drive.You can also transfer the sys...
Summary: Ken, If you are trying to format a hard drive that still works-you can boot up to it, in DOS; Stick a clean floppy in the A drive type SYS A: or Forma...
Summary: I am having trouble. I backed up my files then formatted my hard drive. What do I do next? When I boot from floppy, I select the cd-rom assistance, i...
Summary: The ZppA System cheats in that it used the hard drive boot sector to store itself. No hard drive, or no previously installed system and it will not bo...
Summary: Format does not efect the boot sector or use this switch. This excerpt is from the KB: Microsoft Windows 98 SUMMARY The MS-DOS Fdisk utility usually...
Summary: When I turned on my IBM/PS2 computer today I got a non system disk or disk error. I then put in a boot disk and it said the same thing. The hard drive...
Summary: Thanks for the follow up Sharky. I am copying the contents of the boot sector to the RAM drive and then loading the CD drivers. That all works but th...
Summary: Okay, so what if I have a hard drive in which I formatted, but forgot to format with the system intact and need to reinstall EVERYTHING? I set up HIME...
Summary: Thanx Jack, that makes sense but I am not sure if it applies to my case. My hard drive software does not give a provision for making a boot disk. They...
Summary: ah yes, it is becuase it is NTFS volume. How can i get a boot disk that goes into DOS or anything so i dont need to log in to access files. Im pretty ...
Summary: I tried all the above with no luck. When I tried A:\Fdisk /MBR after 30sec it cam back with " The master boot code has NOT been updated" and returnes ...
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