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Re: My PC won't start even with a boot disk
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Mike Whalen <[log in to unmask]>
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PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 23 Sep 2001 16:59:59 -0400
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Hello Karim,

Sunday, September 23, 2001, 10:42:55 AM, you wrote:

KD> I also inserted the WINDOWS 98 CD-DISK to setup windows 98 but it
KD> indicates "WINDOWS 98 HAS DETECTED THAT DRIVE C DOES NOT CONTAIN A
KD> VALID FAT OR FAT32 PARTITION". What Should I Do???

Hmmm... there are a few viruses that will destroy a Master Boot
Record. Once that goes, there would be no partition record and,
therefore, no "bootable disk."

That's one possibility anyway.

Do you have a bootable floppy? Or at least something that would allow
you to poke around on the hard disk.

Perhaps Norton can fix this. Do you have that?

Cheers,

Mike Whalen

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