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toorie53@aol.com - 27 Oct 2003 00:51 GMT

Windows 98 will not boot-up. I have a boot up disk that i
made before this happened, when i insert it and run it
with or with out cd rom support this message comes
up "windows 98 has detected that Drive C does not contain
a valid FAT or FAT32 partition. After 2 hours on the
phone w/ microsoft i got absolutely nothing accomplished,
i accomplished more using the help file in dos. I cannot
get the computer to do anything, not even run in safe
mode. Could this be a virus??? PLEASE someone help me - or
like i said it's going out the window!

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Jon_Hildrum - 27 Oct 2003 01:20 GMT

It could have been a virus or it might have been someone using some disk
utility which messed up the drive. It could also be that the drive has
developed a defect.

My suggestion would be to repartition the drive, format the drive and
reinstall.

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> Windows 98 will not boot-up. I have a boot up disk that i
> made before this happened, when i insert it and run it
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> mode. Could this be a virus??? PLEASE someone help me - or
> like i said it's going out the window!

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anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com - 27 Oct 2003 02:49 GMT

THANK YOU jon- and how do i do that? (oh, i know it wasn't
a bad disk, i'm the only user - so we can eliminate 1 of
the 3, haha)

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Ron Badour - 30 Oct 2003 18:23 GMT

Fdisk and formatting instructions are included here:
http://home.satx.rr.com/badour/html/w98_restore.html

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> THANK YOU jon- and how do i do that? (oh, i know it wasn't
> a bad disk, i'm the only user - so we can eliminate 1 of
> the 3, haha)

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Toorie53@aol.com - 02 Nov 2003 23:03 GMT

Ron - am i gonna lose everything if i do this -
considering i can't get into the system to backup
anything. plus will this work considering when i do FDISK
in the dos commands it says there are no fixed disks
present. plus - if this is a virus i have on my computer,
if i purchased anti-virus software would i be able to run
it?

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Ron Badour - 02 Nov 2003 23:32 GMT

I think what you should do is determine the brand of hard drive, go to
the maker's web site, download diagnostic software and check the health
of your hard drive.

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Ron Badour, MS MVP W98 System
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> Ron - am i gonna lose everything if i do this -
> considering i can't get into the system to backup
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> if i purchased anti-virus software would i be able to run
> it?

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Gail - 02 Nov 2003 01:21 GMT

We are having the same problem and cannot reformat the
hard drive. We can not run fdisk. Do you have any ideas?

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>It could have been a virus or it might have been someone using some disk
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Jatuhan - 30 Nov 2003 20:14 GMT

I suggest you go back to MS DOS 6.2 Boot disk and do your
fdisk then after formatting C: drive install your windows
3.2 first if it runs OK and the CD-rom driver is installed
then try installing your windows 98 OS. Hope fully some
one else may have a better option. Good Luck
Jatuhan

>-----Original Message-----
>Windows 98 will not boot-up. I have a boot up disk that i
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>like i said it's going out the window!
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