Marshall:

Suggestion:

Presuming you have got your BIOS straightened out about which drive is
your boot drive(s), Load Fdisk for your new drive. Ensure that fdisk
isn't 'looking at' your old C:\ drive. Delete any/all logical drives - in
reverse order, from extended drives down to the DOS/primary boot drive.
When you have a "clean" harddrive, start over with FDisk, first creating
a DOS primary partition/boot drive (C:\), size depending upon how you
plan to partition the new 4G drive, if at all.

If you are going to only boot from the new drive (ie, not dual boot), it
might help to disconnect the old HD until you are ready to reinstall it?

On Tue, 22 May 2001 16:32:57 -0400 Marshall Fortescue
<[log in to unmask]> writes:
> This seems to be an interesting problem that I'm having....and, it
> pertains
> to formating, reinstalling, etc.
>
> I have a hard drive that I've formatted (after moving everything to
> a second
> drive).
> I want to reinstall a fresh system on this 4G drive, Win98 or WinME.
>  Since
> I have formatted, I am unable to get to a place to install system
> software.
> I'm getting a message saying "the following file is corrupt of
> missing" or
> something like that, and it is looking for
> C:\Windows\system'\dblbuff.....
>
> I've tried boot discs, booting the other drive, etc...I'm unable to
> load a
> "clean" system on the original, formatted C:drive...In fact, I am
> unable to
> fdisk the drive because it says there's no space available...I am
> really
> getting confused.
>
> I did something similar on my daughter's computer with no problems.
>
> this computer is a 366mhz Gateway (sorry about that!)

> Marshall Fortescue

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