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FORMAT C: fdisk?

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Posted 06 February 2005 - 03:06 PM

Did format c on IBM Aptiva,Trying to load win 98 se,pc does not respond with boot disk,no cd rom,Loaded win 98se start up disk and it says "drive C does not contain a valid FAT or FAT32 partition. What should I do? It says I may need to run FDISK, How would I go about doing that?

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Posted 06 February 2005 - 04:34 PM

You will have fdisk on the 98 boot disk. Read this to find more info about how to run it. Some info and screenshots.
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Posted 06 February 2005 - 05:03 PM

Thanks Leurgy,I tried to run FDISK.It came up with "No fixed disks present"

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