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Originally Posted by d3play
Where do I start.. here is the problem. A friend of mine type in ms-dos C:\ format. She formatted the C drive. I got it from her and attempted to restore and repair the HHD. no bad sectors seem to be physically fine. I place the Win xp installation disk into CDROM rebooted press DEL to get to setup screen. Selected Bios then selected to boot from to CDROM. I got a message Verifying DMI Pool Data....Invalid sytem disk
Replace the disk, and then press any key
Bear in mind she has no installation disk or windows bootdisk for Win ME.
Please tell me what can I do at this point. any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Hello and Welcome to TSF,
Well you used the wrong command for doing a repair on the operating
system. Heres the correct one:
start
run
type
cmd
chkdsk /r (notice 1 space between k and /).
Now as for the formatting of the harddrive (which means erasing the drive)
but 3rd party programs can be used to retrieve data.
If ou dont need to retrieve data from the harddrive, then you will need
a operating system cd disc to reinstall windows onto the harddrive.