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Originally Posted by Raven_Writer
I was thinking of doing a ZeroWrite (aka ZeroFill), and just reinstall Windows 98 SE, what does anyone think of this idea??
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Well, too bad you didnt trust me
I am sure Partition Magic would have fixed this in under 5 minutes, because this is exactly what happened to me before.
You dont have to zero-fill in order to reinstall Windows. The garbage data on the disk will not be in FAT anyway and will just be treated as free space and get overwritten eventually. Just delete all partitions and create one FAT32 partition on the disk. You can do that by booting into DOS and running FDISK. I think the Win98 install CD has an option to boot into DOS.
Before you do this you may want to double-check the partitioning with Partition Magic just to make sure everything is dead
How did you determine that you only have one partition on the disk? If you did this by running Partition Magic, this may be caused by overlapping partitions. In this case Partition Magic will show one partition marked as "corrupted". You can sometimes fix this by manually editing the partition table. However, because you said the system won't boot anymore, the data may be lost
