I'll try to make a long story short
I'll try to make a long story short
(OP)
I'll try to make a long story short. I must have screwed up when I did a FDISK on my hard drive to partition it. I re-installed win98, came to the part where the computer re-boots, it froze and gave a warning about a network drive. Well I restarted my computer and now it comes up with the message "drive c does not cotain a valid FAT or Fat 32 partition. It tells me to run FDISK again, but when I do I get the message "no fixed drive". At the C: I can pull up the directory and everything is there, it just won't run FDISK or FORMAT. HELP





RE: I'll try to make a long story short
try to boot from a clean floppy disk and also check your computer for viruses (important!!!)
if it is clean from viruses then run the format command fron a floppy and not fron the hard disk. you can use a win98 boot disk for that.
I hope I helped
RE: I'll try to make a long story short
RE: I'll try to make a long story short
to allow FORMAT to work, download a small file called DELPART.EXE. This will allow you to remove all partitions on your drive, allowing a clean format of the whole drive. Then use FORMAT and try reinstalling windows.
heres a link to the tool.
http://www.rustysmith.com/delpart.htm
Scotsdude
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RE: I'll try to make a long story short