Unable to reformat C: Drive - FAT file missing

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Lynne - 21 Sep 2004 22:03 GMT

I was doing a scan disk on my IBM Thinkpad which was
finding many many bad clusters. I think my daughter kept
turning it off without shutting down. after several
hours, it froze. Now it says I have no FAT file. I
booted with a win 98 start up floppy and it boots, but
tells me I have no FAT file. I want to reformat the
whole drive and reinstall but I can't get format or fdisk
to run on the hard drive. i've tried from both c: and a:

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Ron Badour - 21 Sep 2004 23:01 GMT

It sounds like the drive has failed. If you know what brand of hard drive
the laptop has, go to the maker's web site and download their diagnostic
software which runs from a floppy disk. Use it to determine the drive's
health.

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> I was doing a scan disk on my IBM Thinkpad which was
> finding many many bad clusters. I think my daughter kept
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> whole drive and reinstall but I can't get format or fdisk
> to run on the hard drive. i've tried from both c: and a:

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