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Offline eskimo2

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« on: October 07, 2002, 04:42:10 AM »
I'm redoing my pc in order to get AH working.
- Lots of CTDs, was running Win Me, so I decided to format the HDD and install Win 98.

I reformatted my hard drive, then tried installing Win 98 - lots of error messages, Win 98 never finished installing.  Reformatted and tried again, same result.  

So I figured either my HDD is bad or my Win 98 CD is porked (it looks OK though).

As a test, I tried installing Win Me again (to see if the HDD could handle an OS installation at all).  I got one error message and Me installed, but it starts in Safe Mode, kind of.  It says "You are using theSelective Startup for troubleshooting your system."   It's in 16 bit color, and looks and acts like safe mode.

Should I just buy a new hard drive?  Or might it be OK?

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Offline airspro

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« Reply #1 on: October 07, 2002, 07:39:42 AM »
eskimo2
 
 Post this in the Hardware fourm and you'll get more help I think .
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Offline blackfalcon4

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« Reply #2 on: October 07, 2002, 08:55:43 AM »
YOYO,

 Eskimo, when you were formatting, was there alot of "Trying to recover allocation units"  ?

 If there was, the I'd suspect a dying hardrive.
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