Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 09:42:55 -0500
From: Karim Dibba <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: My PC won't start even with a boot disk
Lately my PC (Toshiba) developed some problems. I believed it kind of crashed. When I switch it on, it will ask me to put a "bootable disk in a dive". I did that i.e booting in a windows 98 bootdisk and tried starting windows. After booting from the disk, it indicates "CANNOT CREATE A TEMPORARY FILE. IF YOU HAVE HPFS OR NTFS INSTALLED, YOU WILL NEED TO CREATE A MS-DOS PARTITION TO SET UP WINDOWS". What should I do?
I also inserted the WINDOWS 98 CD-DISK to setup windows 98 but it indicates "WINDOWS 98 HAS DETECTED THAT DRIVE C DOES NOT CONTAIN A VALID FAT OR FAT32 PARTITION". What Should I Do???
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It sounds like you have a disk manager of some type and your boot disk ramdisk is loading as drive C. Check to see the drive letter assigned to the ramdisk during bootup. If you don't have it, you may have to go to the hard disk drive manufacturers website to download the appropriate software.
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