There is something strange in your description. If you deleted all old
partitions and created a new one, you would not be able to enter C: and log
onto it till the partition was formatted. However, you say that you cannot
format the partition. It sounds to me like you may be picking up a
misconfigured previously formatted partition. Be sure to delete all
partition information and then create new partition. You will need to reboot
after creating the partition before you can format it. One more
consideration; are you sure that the BIOS and CMOS settings are set so that
your hard drive is properly recognized?

Just some ideas.

Peter
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> -----Original Message-----
> Ran FDisk and created a new Dos Partition on the 20MB which
> was the Primary Drive.
> When I attempted to Format the drive it came up with an Error
> message Invalid Media Type. The drive is recognized on
> startup....I can enter C: from the A:Drive and get to the
> drive but cannot get a Dir on it or format it.
> I downloaded a new Win95/95a Boot Disk from FreePCHelp here
> and ended up with the same problem. I have tried this
> numerous times and at one point actually got a Incorect Dos
> Version Error but since have gotten the invalid media.
> I tried downloading the Dos6.2 Boot Disk just incase it was a
> version problem but same results....
> I attempted the FDisk/mbr and then Sys C: but did not work either.
> Thanks
> Rich

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