When you Fd the disk you can't run recovery CD  you probably deleted the recovery 
partition also.







On Thursday, August 2, 2007 at 3:40 pm, Rusty wrote:

>I have an HP pavilion 8580C with 20GB HD, 533 PIII, 128 MB RAm.  My little bro decided 

>to try and use it as a firewall using smoothwall, but couldn't configure it.  I 
wanted 

>to reinstall win 98 on the machine to give to a nephew, as win98 is plenty to run 

>kids games.  I used Fdisk to repartition the hard drive, added a primary dos drive. 

> After running the HP recovery program, when computer boots, it goes to a black 
screen 

>that flashes L 99 99 99 99.....indefinitely.  It will not let you get back to command 

>prompt, and I have tried changing BIOS settings and using a boot disk to no avail. 

> Any help would be greatly appreciated. 

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