Was the partition activated in Fdisk?  What happens if he tries to boot
without CD-ROM support?
Ron Jobe

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brad Loomis" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2002 8:01 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Unable to load OS, Win98


> Hello,
> I am helping a friend some distance from me so I do not have the ability
to
> look at the machine. He had three partitions on a 6gb drive and wanted to
> revert back to a single partition. Also wiping all information from the
> machine as it was his old business machine. I had him enter fdisk, from a
> Win98 Boot disk, deleted all partitions, recreated a single 6GB partition
> and made it active. He has formatted both with no /s and with /s. The
> problem arises when booting with a Win98 boot disk, if he selects load
with
> CD-ROM support after a moment all he gets is a blinking cursor in the
lower
> left of the screen with no A or C prompt. He has tried 4 different boot
> disks to no avail, same problem.
>
> This is a PII 266 stock Dell with 128mb ram. Win98 1st.
> Suggestions?
> Thanks as always,
> Brad Loomis
> Morro Bay, CA
>
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