Tech Win 98 help (Read 117 times)

Mince Wobley

#1 January 15, 2008, 02:53:28 pm
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Someone brought me their old computer to see if I can fix it, and this is what it does:

- When windows 98 is loading, at some point it stops and says

Error Reading Data on Drive C. Abort, Retry, Ignore, Fail?

MS-Dos works OK, but scandisk says it found an error and freezes at 7%. The HD is an ancient one, larger than the HDs from the present.
I thought about formatting the HD and then re-installing Win98.

How can I fix that?
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Happy HELLoween

#2 January 15, 2008, 03:31:06 pm
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Sounds like data is corrupted. Try to reinstall, but chances are the hard drive is dead.
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#3 January 15, 2008, 03:33:31 pm
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It's not dead, MS-DOS still works and I can see what files are inside it. One time a HD I had died, and it just wouldn't work at all, the computer wouldn't even recognize it.
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#4 January 15, 2008, 09:24:32 pm
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Corrupt data, maybe? I'd just format and re-install. It might be a faulty hdd too. You could try installing win98 over the current version, running the setup executable from dos but I doubt it'll solve the problem.
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#5 January 16, 2008, 01:28:38 am
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Reformatting will let you know whether the drive is dead or not. If you reinstall and everything is fine then something got corrupted. If not, your drive is dead yo.
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