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07-27-2001, 08:11 PM
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| Registered User Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Australia
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|  Formatting problem I have a problem. Have corrupted 98se (vmm.32vxd) which nothing including reinstalling windows over the top has fixed. So i want to format C:\ to reinstall the OS. Trouble is now I can't get the machine to format ! Booting to MSDOS fails. No characters appear when typing and after the 5th keystroke a sharp beep from the case speaker and an error message about "config.sys being incorrect". I guess this is part of the corruption of 98. So put the 98se boot floppy in and at the A:\> prompt type "format C:" as I normally do and just get "bad command or file name" error. Do I have any alternative other than to wipe the boot sector file from HDD (low level format) ? Had to do this when I first got this upgrade recently and during partitioning forgot to set 1 logical drive. went to go back in via fdisk and had the same thing happen (simply wouldn't open fdisk) Have tested HDD, Ram etc and theoretically everything is fine. Any ideas ? |
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07-27-2001, 08:15 PM
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| Politically Incorrect  Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Over River an thru the Woods
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| Yes Did ya Partition it ? If so boot from the disk and enable cd rom put your win 98 cd rom in go to the win 98 dir i think the format file is also in there exacute it from the disk if ya cant from the floppy If the file is not in there look around for it it is ofcourse on the disk1 My system http://www.geocities.com/asususer200...l?996104305800 |
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07-27-2001, 08:17 PM
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| Or Maybe somthing rong with your boot disk it sounds corupt! Is another win 98 computer available to make a boot disk from ? If so make sure the Format file is on it ! Go to search and find it and copy it to the boot disk |
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07-28-2001, 07:56 AM
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| Registered User Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Australia
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| Thanks for the help, job done. And yes booting from the CD was the answer, floppy has no format file on it ! Now to get this board (cusl2-c) stable. |
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07-29-2001, 09:17 AM
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| Clearly Confused  Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Either Here Or There I Don't Know
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| Format is in the EBD.cab file on the startup disk and you have to change directorys to the ramdrive to access it. Ramdrive is usually the next drive letter after your hard drive partitions (it bumps your cd-rom one letter if windows did the letter assignment). Normally- C= Primary partition D= Cd-rom Boot disk- C= Primary partition D= RamDrive E= Cd-rom
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