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by bobmoro1564

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I run Win98se standalone Intel Pentium II 350Mhz PC. The system developed symptoms which resulted in corrupt directories. On attempt to re-instal, the volume label appears as "Le" which I am not able to delete or rename. Bootdisk dioagnostics load okay, but the directory of C:\ appears as "fsnw created on 03-02-03; other directories are "ne", Win9" and yet there are no files!!
Some help with this problem.

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by radiic

boot your system with your dos boot disk
type fdisk
delete partition
reboot with disk
type fdisk
then create partition
reboot with disk
type format c:
then start your load of 98

if your unable to fdisk i would find out the brand name of the hard drive and go to there website and d/l their utilites, and run a low level format on the drive. You might even want to run there diagnostics and see if you get any errors, because if you do all this is futile anyways.

Rad

by ghstinshll

Rad forgot a disclaimer in his message... He's assuming that you have lost your data and that you have acknowledged that.

Running this fdisk will delete the FAT tables on your hard drive, and then you will be recreating a partition. You will be prompted to reboot from the floppy when necessary. You shuld be abel to delete the partition and recreate it all in one sweep, then reboot, and from the prompt, format c: so that you have a clean FAT partition before your win98 install.

by radiic

since he had mentioned the re-install that he had made the proper backups of his important files.

duh.

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