cannot install windows 98, 98SE, ME on ide hard drives clean installations

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forrest - 30 Oct 2003 12:20 GMT

these error messages occur, in this order:

1- cannot start Windows in standard mode try starting
windows in 386 enhanced mode by typing win /3

the fixes for this error message in knowledgebase don't
work (format drive: /c, scandisk /surface)

2- scandisk encountered a data error while readign the
fat entry for cluster 2062841, this error prevents
Scandisk from fixing this drive

have to use the drive mfr's utility disk to re-lowlevel
format drive for re-fdisking and reformatting drive,
doesn't matter whether done in fat 16 or fat32

cannot find this error message

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anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com - 30 Oct 2003 17:08 GMT

I solved error message #1 on my own, with no help from
tech support somewhere in India. They hung up on me as I
read from the ME installation manual describing why they
were wrong. #2 remains a problem on one hard disk that
had much data on it as FAT32, that suggested that
scandisk could fix it if it was a windows operating
system, which it was, however, I'm thinking that it might
not have considered fat32 a windows file system, since I
chose to have scandisk fix it, and then the drive would
not boot after inserting the media descriptor. Dir c:
shows disk is not empty. How do I recover the disk
contents?

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