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Unable to write to drive c:

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by pmarsh

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I'm in the middle of building a new PC. All of a sudden I get this blue screen of death while loading software from the CD. The text states unable to write to drive C:, all info will be lost. I hit the "anykey" and it starts loading again. Over time it just kept getting worse and worse. I changed out CD's and drivers and it has only happened once. I know it must be something to do with the drivers and the BIOS? The BIOS is a brand new Award and the OS is Win98se. I also ran into the shutdown/scandisk problem faster chips are causing, loaded the SP from Microsoft and that fixxed that problem. If any one has some ideas please let me know.

Thanx, Paul

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by roland63

Did you successfully fdisk and format that drive?

I came across this once and the guy had not fdisk-ed the drive.

Good luck.

by pmarsh

Delparted, Fdisked and formated because the drive was originally NTFS.

Any other ideas?

by roland63

Are you BOMBARDING the drive with all the toys and drivers all at once?

Or are you using the more tolerable method of install-a-toy-and-its-drivers, run it for a little while then move onto the next toy & drivers?

I'd try the second way - you're more likely to find the culprit.

good luck.

by roland63

I have a suspicion about that drive.

Is there any way you can use another drive?

At least if the same happens with the second drive you try you'll know to eliminate the drive as a culprit.

Otherwise, it MUST be a driver.

by pmarsh

It seams to be holding it's own now, but I'm just a little concerned about what will happen when it goes into production. I think I'll through some huge App. at it tonght to see what happens. Thanks for your help and have a good weekend.

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