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16125 2001-07-26 03:21:00 Hello, I ran a Norton System check on my dual boot win98/win2k partition.

On rebooting the damn thing wouldnt start!!

I made a post earlier and the reply helped a great deal ( I can start the win2k recovery console) but for some reason that has corrupted the ntoskrnl.exe and now win2k wont start either.

My main problem however, is that my C: drive cannot be recognised. win2k setup recognises it as FAT32, however when I try to read the contents it will not work....(cannot read the format, either unformatted, corrupt or different format).

From this I suspect that Norton has mucked up the first few sectors of the drive. My question is this, is there a way to recover the condition of the drive i.e. get c: drive up and readable again? or must I format and start again (please no!!!!)?
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16126 2001-07-27 00:22:00 You do not say which Norton version you are using.
If you have a look on the carton the program came in; I doubt you will see Windows 2000 listed.
In these circumstances I would normally FDISK and unconditonally format the HDD before re-installing only Windows 2000 compatible utilities.
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