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help with Win98SE
« on: September 14, 2004, 02:48:21 am »
I found an HD sitting around my house and decided I needed another MAME drive.  I fdisked and formatted, but when I tried to install Win 98SE, it kept giving me a "Packed File Corrupt" error.  and wouldn't install.  Any clues about this one guys?

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Re:help with Win98SE
« Reply #1 on: September 14, 2004, 04:01:52 am »
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Re:help with Win98SE
« Reply #2 on: September 14, 2004, 03:51:11 pm »
Yeah I did a websearch before posting on here....guess I should have stated that.  It's not a virus, nor a memory load issue.  I think it's just a crapped-out HD now.  I couldn't even get MSDOS to install on it.
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Re:help with Win98SE
« Reply #3 on: September 14, 2004, 04:46:28 pm »
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Re:help with Win98SE
« Reply #4 on: September 14, 2004, 04:52:53 pm »
Quote from: EyeDoc on September 14, 2004, 02:48:21 am
I found an HD sitting around my house and decided I needed another MAME drive.  I fdisked and formatted, but when I tried to install Win 98SE, it kept giving me a "Packed File Corrupt" error.  and wouldn't install.  Any clues about this one guys?
Go to the drive manufacturer's website (Maxtor, Western Digital, etc.)  Download and run their formatting and diagnostic software on the drive.  If it checks out okay, try to install 98SE again and see if the problem clears up.
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Re:help with Win98SE
« Reply #5 on: September 14, 2004, 05:01:13 pm »
those sites will probably have a tool that will let you zero out the hdd.  that may help clear out any file structure errors..
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