A friend has an old CTX with a 100Mhz pentium overdrive cpu, 48 megs of ram,
award bios and win95. He tried so set up an internet connection but was missing
to many files and drivers, I advised him to upgrade to win98se which he tried to
do. He made it to the point where he had less than 10 min to go and it started
rebooting with error messages and finally locked up completely. It would power
down and run scandisk and then hang.
I brought it home, did a deltree windows, and did a complete install of win95b.
this worked fine for one day, and then started running scandisk and repairing
files on evety boot. We decided that the only alternative was a format and
reinstall. He used a boot disk that had been created with win98. the format
kept reporting on the number of allocation units reclaime
d (?) and after 24
hours was still formatting, 1gig hd, he paniced and cancelled the format and
tried again with a win95 bootdisk. Now the format command comes back with
invalid disk.
Can this hd be salvaged and if so how? Any help will be greatly appreciated.

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