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Topic: HELP!!!!
started by: BigKahuna

Posted by BigKahuna on Jul. 16 2001,18:30

Help me please!! I used partition magic to partition my 60GB hard drive and made 1 20 gig partition which was fine. I then wanted to install Win98SE on another partition and dual boot, because winME is such an asshole.

After following the instructions of Partition Magic I used the wizard to make another primary partition of 5GB and set it to active so i could install Win98SE. Now after installing Win98 the computer booted up fine, but it set the other partition with ME to hidden so i couldn't see any of the files. Since partition magic was on that part of the drive i had to use Fdisk.exe to change the active partition back to the original WinME one. I got the WinME boot screen but for some reason the computer kept booting into Win98. After ages of trying to get it to boot into the 35 gig partition i decided to format the Win98 drive and delete the partition. After doing so, i now can't boot into any partition on my drive, the computer just wont pick it up. There is no logical drives on my disk. I don't know what to do!!!
I would appreciate any help!

Posted by demonk on Jul. 16 2001,18:38

I suggest you just start over.

1. Turn on the computer. When the message Starting MS-DOS® appears press [F5]. If you are using Windows® 95, when the message Starting Windows 95 appears press [F8]. Then select Command Prompt Only.

2. At the DOS command prompt, type the following:

debug [Enter]
where [ENTER] is to press the enter key once.
CAUTION: Performing the following will remove all data from your hard disk drive.

NOTE: Type the following bolded text only. You will receive an error if you type anything other than the bold text. The non-bolded text represents what will appear on your screen once you press [Enter] after typing each command.

-F 200 L1000 0 [Enter]
-A CS:100 [Enter]
xxxx:0100 MOV AX,301 [Enter]
xxxx:0103 MOV BX,200 [Enter]
xxxx:0106 MOV CX,1 [Enter]
xxxx:0109 MOV DX,80 [Enter]

NOTE: ( -- "80" for hd 0, "81" for hd 1 )

xxxx:010C INT 13Enter]
xxxx:010E INT 20 [Enter]
xxxx:0110 [Enter]
-G [Enter]
"Program terminated normally"

3. Turn off the computer. On the next startup the hard drive will need to be partitioned and formatted.

Posted by BigKahuna on Jul. 16 2001,19:15

The comp doesn't say "starting windows98" because it wont boot at all off the hard drive. It stops at saying "verifying DMI pool data" or something. If i was to copy debug.exe to the boot disk, would this method work?

Posted by demonk on Jul. 16 2001,19:30

Yup. Worked for me just last night. Man, you really screwed your hard drive up!

Posted by pengu1nn on Jul. 18 2001,15:23

all of that isn't nessicary. just make a boot disk, and fdisk it then format. fdisk to del all the partitions then make a new one, then format and install windows2000 or 98, me is just a sorry ass os

Posted by Beldurin on Aug. 08 2001,15:59

#include /usr/local/winme_sux

If you're going to try to dual boot 98/2K, make sure you install 98 first on the C partition, then pop in the 2K cd...it'll give you the option to make a fresh install (put it on the D partition) and will automatically set up the OS loader (similar to LILO in linux)

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Posted by Blowgoats on Aug. 08 2001,16:15

I say you start from scratch and do a low level format. Then after that get a copy of Symantec's GDisk. It's a little harder than Partition Fuck Up, but it works 10 times better. As for the dual-boot shit, that's not my department.

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This message has been edited by Blowgoats on August 09, 2001 at 01:28 PM