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re: Reformatting 98- Problems
Tuesday, December 30, 2003 at 2:50 pm
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Posted by peter (5 messages posted)


Compaq's got some proprietary stuff that's hidden on your HD. Try fdisk at the A:\>. After that try format, but only format c: /s.


On Tuesday, December 30, 2003 at 12:32 pm, Josh wrote:
>While trying to reformat a Presario 5020 running Windows 98 first edition with a
>standard Win 98 boot disk, I typed at the a:\> format c: /s/u/v.
>The message came back- Insuffient memory to load system files. Format terminated.
> I tried two different boot disks with the same results. Any advice, please help.


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Reformatting 98- Problems (Josh: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 at 12:32 pm)

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-Reformatting 98- Problems (Josh: Tue, Dec 30, 2003, 12:32 pm)
-re: Reformatting 98- Problems (m.lawrence: Tue, Dec 30, 2003, 12:46 pm)
*re: Reformatting 98- Problems (dan: Tue, Dec 30, 2003, 2:17 pm)
*re: Reformatting 98- Problems (peter: Tue, Dec 30, 2003, 2:50 pm)
*re: Reformatting 98- Problems (Gerry Kroll: Tue, Dec 30, 2003, 3:36 pm)
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