No need to use Fdisk with HP recovery CD. Your post does not indicate proper use 
of Fdisk. Did you remember to set the primary Partition to Active and Format all 
partitions before you ran the Recovery CD.

See link below.

http://www.onecomputerguy.com/install/fdisk.htm

bw



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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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