[TechAssist] Re: Friends Gateway 500 essential,won't load win98
- From: "Jim Myers" <jr.myers@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 16:45:29 -0500
Good advice but you may also try FDISK /MBR at the dos prompt, this will
write a new generic master boot record to the drive. May not fix it but very
easy to do and no harm done.
Jim Myers
jr.myers@xxxxxxxxxxx
----- Original Message -----
From: "Barry Bower" <barrybower@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2001 4:00 PM
Subject: [TechAssist] Re: Friends Gateway 500 essential,won't load win98
>
> Hi Ron
> the drive probably isn't blown but windows maybe.You need to
> boot into dos and run norton disk doctor (dos version).Sounds like the FAT
> is blown.There are 2 copies on the disk and norton will try to make a good
> copy.If that doesn't work you'll probably need to re format the disk or
> maybe fdisk it and then format and then reload windows
>
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