Valid fat partition

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I need some advice bad while try to installed a aol cd it crash my computer Win 98 on it I can get to enter f 1 for set up then on the startup 98 disk os but message say please put media disk in right drive but don't work when i put AOL disk in keep get same respond I got to dos it give this message win 98 detected drive c don't have valid fat or fat 32 partition I try to run fdisk said it not installed I try chkdsk tell me to run scan and it goes fast and said no errors on drive c conig sys or auto bat files does not come in when type in how can I get this to boot ? I also try to rerun Win 98 but can't get it to installed Thank you BJ

 

[Snickle]

Everything you list points to the hard drive having failed.

The scandisk you ran from a Win98 boot disk only checked a RAM Drive the boot disk creates and will run very fast.

The AOL disk is not a bootable disk.

In the BIOS Setup [Del or F2 or F10, etc. during the early part of bootup] is a line about Auto-detect the hard drives, is it detecting a drive? If not, the hard drive has failed. It yes, then the hard drive may have lost the boot sector.