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by pam_mooneyhan

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To begin, I downloaded WINLOCK 4.0 from the internet. Sometime later I uninstalled WINLOCK. When I rebooted my PC, Windows98SE would not start. Error message was: Need to reinstall Windows. I have tried to reinstall Windows98SE, Use the restore CD'sthat came with the PC, format my harddrive, and fdisk. None would work. When I ran fdisk, I was in "Standard mode" and could not get out. What is "Standard mode"?
My PC is a Compaq Presario, 13GB H/D, 96mb memory, O/S 98SE.
It seems that there are locks on the PC from the factory I cannot get past. I have never encounter this before. I work on PC's all the time. This is new to me.
Any help would be appreciated!

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by dasteksys

HI Pam
When your installing Win98SE. Did you create a FAT32 partition? When you first come into fdisk. It will ask you a question about large disk support you should hit y key for yes. Then create a logical partition using the entire hard disk. Try a boot disk an perform a format manually and create a FAT32 Partition.

by zlitocook

The only locks that can be used are in the bios or cmos and you can remove the battery or short the cmos with jumpers on the mother board. How detailed do you want me to get about how to fdisk and format? I can walk you through how to do it but to aperson who has not done it befor it will be uh scary. email me zlito@aol.com

by @lberto

Go to your Compaq's BIOS, enable Boot on Floppy, save, now restart your pc with a bootable disk. Now you can use Fdisk, destroy the partition and build a new one, reboot your PC, go to BIOS, not enable to boot first on CD, place your Recover cd on it, reboot the pc and now you'll be able to run your recovery cd.
Once it is ready remember to change your BIOS to boot from HDD first.
If it doesn't work e-mail me at
alberto@pancarib.com

Good luck,
@lberto

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