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non booting PC
LockedI tried to remove norton antivirus because it was corrupted from a previous attempt to uninstall it from the hard drive by normal ways i.e. add/remove programs etc. and also because it somehow ended up with two different versions installed.
I used a program called RNAV.EXE from symantec?s web site to remove them through windows. The first version removed perfectly but when I tried to remove the second version the whole computer crashed and now will no longer boot up
When you attempt to boot from C:\ drive it gives the message ?..searching for boot record from IDE-0?.. then?Boot failure insert boot disk ??.
When I attempt to boot from a Win98 boot disk it gives the following error :
Windows 98 detected that C: does not contain a valid Fat or Fat32 Partition There may be several possible causes
1 The drive may need to be repartitioned. To create a partition run Fdisk
2 You may be using third party utility software
3 Some viruses also cause C: not to register etcWhen I run Fdisk I get the following message ?error reading fixed disk
I tried the Fdisk /mbr switch but it tells me that the MBR was NOT updated.
The hard drive is detected in BIOS but not when the PC tries to boot.
What can I do to fix this problem so I canaccess C: to repartition and reinstall or whatever
Thanks