I think I fried my hard drive

[carmeljacques]

I have an Dell XPS Dimension 600 running Windows 98 that I purchased in 2001 (600 Mhz Pentium processor). Norton Internet Security was constantly hanging up my PC and I tried to replace it with a package from Computer Associates. I made sure it was compatible with Win 98 but overlooked the fact that it requires 256K of RAM (Ihave 128K). When it didn't work I tried to uninstall the software and got a message that some register had been clobbered. At that point nothing worked. I decided to start from scratch and reinstall all my software - dumb move. As I couldn't get to the internet for tech notes, I recalled that on a previous computer I had reformatted my C drive using the command format C: /s and then booted the system using my boot disk after which I restored the system from the diskettes that came with the machine. I hoped that I could do the same this time except using the Win 98 CD instead of the system diskettes. My approach failed. I have subsequently replaced the PC with a new one but would like to give the old one to charity. Before I do that I would like to restore it to usable condition. Can I recover from this debacle or should I turn the PC into a planter? Help, please.

 

[vacunita]

Go to

http://www.bootdisks.com

and download a Win98 bootdisk. Boot with it, run format C: and then use your CD to install Win98.



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Ignorance is not necessarily Bliss, case in point:
Unknown has caused an Unknown Error on Unknown and must be shutdown to prevent damage to Unknown.

 

[NoCalAdmin]

just boot up to the CD (change your cmos settings to boot up CD first) and install 98 again. During the initial install it should ask you which partition and give you the chance to reformat it then and install the new OS.

 

[tekt1p5]

I had a functional server running callmanager software on it. My little son yanked one of the harddrives out with the system running (NOT hot swaps).The server stalls on the boot. I get an error that contains something like this:”0000000007B “when I try. I have another server (same model). I tried inserting the corrupted drives on the other server and I can read the data on them fine. I however don’t know how to get the CM application to launch from there .I need this callmanager application desperately and I have no back up of it.

-Compaq MCS 7835
-Windows 2000 OS
-4 HD slots each server
-2 Hard drives each server
-No OS CDs or any RAID CDs

Anyone with suggestions on how I can get my call manager back running ?