I need help witha computer with win 98 HARDRIVE MALFUNCTION

chainzawz · 05-18-2005, 12:54 AM

I have a dell desktop wih 98on it that is my grandmother's. when I load the computer I get a message that say somthing to the exstent that an error has occured on drive C and then it runs scanreg then it goes to windows. I have afeeling that the hard drive might be "fried' is there anyway to check. allso how do i format drive c on this computer (the one talked about in the text above}

Bobo · 05-18-2005, 12:57 AM

If it goes to windows, it ain't fried. If you want to format it, go to dos, type in fdisk c: (or something of the sort, I don't do DOS, and I don't do win98

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**Lax** · 05-18-2005, 03:53 AM

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If it goes to windows, it ain't fried. If you want to format it, go to dos, type in fdisk c: (or something of the sort, I don't do DOS, and I don't do win98

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Boot to C prompt. Fdisk.exe to run the partitioning program, add/delete/change the partition you want to. Do what it says and go back to the C prompt. Type format c:/ and follow what it says to do. Mind you if you wanted to format you could also do it through the Win98SE disk I do believe.

NeuromancerWGDD'U · 05-18-2005, 04:07 AM

if you go to "C:\windows\cabs" (something like that, maybe C:\windows\options, or C:\windows\options\cabs) it should have an object called "setup.exe" you might want to try running this before reformatting. It reinstalls windows98, and, from my experience, fixes almost all problems with the OS. <removed for stupidity>

**Praetor** · 05-20-2005, 07:06 PM

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05-18-2005, 12:57 AM	#2 (permalink)
Bobo banned Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Pittsburgh Age: 16 Posts: 6,623	If it goes to windows, it ain't fried. If you want to format it, go to dos, type in fdisk c: (or something of the sort, I don't do DOS, and I don't do win98 )