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| Thread ID: 38690 | 2003-10-15 04:36:00 | Auction PC OS Problem | rocketeer (4703) | Press F1 |
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| 183513 | 2003-10-16 19:31:00 | The HP W2K disc was not labelled for any specific HP PC. Can you talk me through the "FDISK /MDR" function? |
rocketeer (4703) | ||
| 183514 | 2003-10-16 19:32:00 | No it's an indication that $250.00 PC's aren't always the bargin they seem! | rocketeer (4703) | ||
| 183515 | 2003-10-17 02:25:00 | The labelling is probably on the shrink wrapped packets and never touched by human hands. :D The FDISK /MBR is an undocumented feature of the Microsoft paritioning programme. If the low level booting code which is stored on the disk has been damaged or overwritten, this option replaces it. If you have an emergency floppy for W98, it will let you do this. Or if you can intercept the boot process to make it boot to W98, you might be able to do it from the MD-DOS window. I would usually do it from a plain DOS prompt ... but since it isn't like partitioning, it might allow you to do it from the boot device. Otherwise, you can do it from the W98 installation Cd ... there might be a menu which lets you use a "command prompt" (DOS) rather than the installation, or just Ctrl/C and escape from the install procedure. Just type FDISK /MBR with a space before the "/" (and with Enter at the end :D) . You might see the disk LED flash, then just reboot. It should be a clean boot to W98. |
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