Greetings John & list--
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From: "John Stoker" <[log in to unmask]>
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> Thanks George or Mary
>       I tried what you recomended and finally got to this point >volume in
> drive c is MS-RAMDRIVE <  directory of C:\
>                       File not found
>                          !,,837,568 bytes free.
>  Then I Tried C:\.Format  got required parameter missing.   But the good
> news,I think is that now my boot disk works. This has become a pet project
so
> I'll keep pluggin away.    Thanks Again John Stoker

This begins to sound more like your hard disk really has fried,
become disconnected, or has, in some way, become invisible
to the system.  When you boot a computer with the Win98 boot
disk it sets up and assigns an unused drive letter to a RAM drive.
This is not a physical drive, but a use of system RAM to temporarily
store certain diagnostic and other tools (format.com is located here
when you boot with the Win98 startup disk).  The fact that the
drive letter C has been assigned tells me that a hard disk may not
have been found.  [On my computer, drive D becomes the MS-RAMDRIVE
and drive E becomes my CD-ROM (if, of course, I elected to start up
with CD-ROM support.]

HTH,

Paul A. Shippert     Library/Media Specialist
 Margaret Brent Middle School
Phone: 301-884-4635         FAX: 301-884-8937
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