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    ERROR DETECTED WHILE FORMATTING PRIMARY HARD DISK

    O.K. I was able to put in the DC rom and it started to boot up.. then it said formatting ,, then error.. cannot formatt. press enter to exit. I also was able to get into FDISK. and I didn't understand the options. I did the 2nd one.. but still couldn't get to windows.. THank you for all your...
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    ERROR DETECTED WHILE FORMATTING PRIMARY HARD DISK

    I can get to tht A:\> Then what? I typed in FDISK and FDISK.COM... what ever I type in I get "Bad command or file name"
  3. SMILECJ777

    ERROR DETECTED WHILE FORMATTING PRIMARY HARD DISK

    OK... Is it a special disk that I need to Boot to DOS??? What prompt should it be at? If you could tell me exactly ... I can do =-)... The puter worked fine.. then It was turned on and all the sudden it came up with missing operating system. I cant be real sure that someone didn't mess with it...
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    ERROR DETECTED WHILE FORMATTING PRIMARY HARD DISK

    Sorry I did do the SYS C:... nothing... and I have tried to boot from the CD.. Ill try toget to a prompt and see if I can get into dos. THanks
  5. SMILECJ777

    ERROR DETECTED WHILE FORMATTING PRIMARY HARD DISK

    One more thing.... I also get unknown media .. cannot access drive... thanks again Smilecj777
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    ERROR DETECTED WHILE FORMATTING PRIMARY HARD DISK

    I have tried everything to start up win98,, nothing is working. When I boot, I get operating system missing. I have rebooted from a boot disk, startup disk, diagnostic disk, recovery CD and Have tried to reinstall too. I have gotten to where its starting to reinstall ( I THINK?) and I get the...

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