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Elizabeth Hamilton

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Mar 24, 2000, 3:00:00 AM3/24/00
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Hi
Can someone pls help me? I've fdisked all my windows partitions including
the c drive and Ms Dos partitions as well. Now when I
boot the computer it says" No operating system found. When I boot up from a
win boot disk It tells me Windows 98 has detected that c drive does not
contain a valid FAT or FAT 32 partiton there are several possible causes.

1) The drive may need to be partitioned. To creat a partiton run Fdisk.

When I do go into Fdisk. It says "do you want to support large disk
support?" When I choose "yes" then press return I get a blank screen. Can
someone pls help me? Toshiba have told me I need to get a new hard disk. But
before I deleted the partitions, the computer worked fine.

Thanks
Eliz

Brian Woodruff

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Mar 25, 2000, 3:00:00 AM3/25/00
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double check your partition

I had a very similar problem once... I went back into fdisk and noticed that
it was garbled... I deleted the partition and recreated it. Had no problems
after that.

Brian
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Constance Mallon

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Apr 5, 2000, 3:00:00 AM4/5/00
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Did your laptop come with a recovery cd? If it did put that in the cd-rom and
boot up with the boot up diskette in the a: drive. You can always install linux
alongside dos - so don't feel obligated to delete the dos partition if you
really don't need to.

If you don't have a recovery cd - say no to large disk support and see what
happens. You may also want to try another boot up disk - perhaps the fdisk on
yours is corrupted.

Elizabeth Hamilton wrote:

> Hi
> Can someone pls help me? I've fdisked all my windows partitions including
> the c drive and Ms Dos partitions as well. Now when I
> boot the computer it says" No operating system found. When I boot up from a
> win boot disk It tells me Windows 98 has detected that c drive does not
> contain a valid FAT or FAT 32 partiton there are several possible causes.
>
> 1) The drive may need to be partitioned. To creat a partiton run Fdisk.
>
> When I do go into Fdisk. It says "do you want to support large disk
> support?" When I choose "yes" then press return I get a blank screen. Can
> someone pls help me? Toshiba have told me I need to get a new hard disk. But
> before I deleted the partitions, the computer worked fine.
>
> Thanks
> Eliz

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