I screwed My 2nd com

[magicz69]

my old com is using win 98/se p3 800mhz 19gb 128ram... i recently upgrade to win2k overwriting the win98... and now i'm trying to coverting it back to win98 using the IBM recovery disc.. it came out an error "partition doesn't end at end of cylinder" den now it screwed up the win2k registry... now my win2k is unable to load .. recovery disk unable to format and recover my win98.. help wad should i do ?

[excuzzzeme]

Sounds like you allowed 2K to reformat the disk, in which case you cannot use the recovery disk. If you fdisk the hard drive, and reformat , boot from a win98 floppy, then copy the i386 cab files from the recovery disk onto the clean drive to c:\w98, then run setup from the w98 directory you might be able to recover.

[Bill in SD, CA]

Try running the manufacturer's hard drive diagnostic disk to see if the drive has any problems.

If no problems or if the the disk can fix any then you should be able to partition and format from there.

Here are some hardware links to some sites.

Bill

Edit: BTW, I just noticed the one link is dead as the forum has shut down. Google your hard drive and you should be able to easily find a site.

Now to edit my web page.

[magicz69]

Originally posted by excuzzzeme
Sounds like you allowed 2K to reformat the disk, in which case you cannot use the recovery disk. If you fdisk the hard drive, and reformat , boot from a win98 floppy, then copy the i386 cab files from the recovery disk onto the clean drive to c:\w98, then run setup from the w98 directory you might be able to recover.

is there any guides or something cuz i'm really newbie to it .. can the win2k cd even repair the win2k to let it run ? and i dun haf a win98 floppy all i haf is a recovery disc..

[magicz69]

Originally posted by Bill in SD, CA
Try running the manufacturer's hard drive diagnostic disk to see if the drive has any problems.

If no problems or if the the disk can fix any then you should be able to partition and format from there.

Here are some hardware links to some sites.

Bill

Edit: BTW, I just noticed the one link is dead as the forum has shut down. Google your hard drive and you should be able to easily find a site.

Now to edit my web page.

My old com is premade from IBM ... and i haf no idea wads the brand of the hd

[Bill in SD, CA]

I fthe computer was built by IBM then it is an IBM drive which is now supported by Hitachi.

Bill

[John Prophet]

just get a w98se boot floppy from www.bootdisk.com

run fdisk and "delete all non-DOS partitions"

boot from the boot floppy--type in "fdisk"..it will ask you a question so answer (y) for yes.

then it will give you a menu and you should choose (3) delete a partition and then (4) Delete non dos partition

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then try your IBM recovery disk

[magicz69]

alright thanks i'll go try it now

[magicz69]

how do i go ms-dos when i cant load win2k ?

[John Prophet]

you boot off the floppy like I said....when you boot off the floppy it boots you into MS-dos.

The only thing u might need to do is set your bios to boot from the floppy first