This happened to me once and, I re-installed my old hard drive that had 
Windows 98 on it and, created a boot disk then, I re-installed my new hard 
drive, used the Win98 boot disk to startup then, ran the FDISK from the 
boot disk to partition the drive. This should bring you back to the A: 
prompt. At the A: prompt type in  FORMAT C: then, hit enter. I don't know 
if this will work for you but, you can give it a try. I don't know if it 
will fix your other drives but, it will format your hard drive.





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Here is the problem. I have a HP Pavillion 553w. The hard drive went on it
and today I replaced it with a used one that had Win 98 on it. Because the
new hard drive had all kinds of junk on it I used the FDisk utility to 
clean
everything off from it. My overall plan is to install Windows Server 2003
software. The problem at hand is that neither the floppy drive or CD-ROM
drive are being read. If I place my WinXP home CD in and turn on the
computer it quickly shows the HP logo and then goes to a black screen with
just a cursor in the upper left hand corner of the screen. I have also 
tried
using a MS-DOS v6 floppy and a WinXP boot floppy and get the same result.

 

The question: how do I go about formatting the hard drive now?

 

Thank you in advance for those who respond!!

 

Chris

 

 

 


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