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39717	2002-03-18 23:46:00	I have picked up an older PC and decided to reformat and reinstall win98, however after I run the startup disk I get a message that win98 has detected that C: drive does not contain a valid FAT or FAT 32 partition. There are several possible causes. 1/ The drive may need to be partitioned & to partition the drive run FDISK from the DOS prompt. 2/ I may be using a third party disk partitioning software. 3/ some viruses can cause your C: drive not to register so use a virus scanning programme to check for viruses. However these are my immediate problems. Problem 1/. Am unable to run FDISK, I get a message 'no fixed disks present' 1a/ Unable to reformat I get a message 'format not supported on drive C:' format terminated. 1b/ Unable to reinstall win98 'insufficient memory' 2/ I am not familiar with what is on the PC as to whether there is third party disk partitioning. 3/ Unable to run win98 from startup, advised of 'DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER'. When I do put in the startup disk I go back to problem #1 So I am really stuck in DOS- Mode only and Would appreciate any help.	Guest (0)
39718	2002-03-19 01:57:00	It sounds like the Hard Drive is not setup correctly in the BIOS. You need to get into the BIOS (usually by pressing DEL on boot-up) and check that the HDD is listed. If not there should be an option to Auto-Detect HDD's. Remember to set it to LBA mode if it is bigger than 540MB.	Guest (0)
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