CAUTION: Use this at your own risk (desperation). It will totally erase your harddrive, with no way to restore.
DOS boot disk with at least Debug, Fdisk, and Format on it (Win98 Emergency Boot Disk has it all). Boot to A: prompt - type DEBUG. a "-" will appear, start typing, and hit <enter> after each line.
The x's are for reference only, do not type. The rest of "Address" will appear on it's own.
Addresses What you type --------- ------------- F 200 L1000 0 (ZEROS) A CS:100 xxxx:0100 MOV AX,0301 xxxx:0103 MOV BX,0200 xxxx:0106 MOV CX,0001 xxxx:0109 MOV DX,0080 xxxx:010C INT 13 xxxx:010E INT 20 xxxx:0110 <ENTER> (Just hit enter key) G Q
The "G" means GO, and it should give a message like "program terminated normally" (This is from the original instructions, it may be too fast to read on new systems). The "Q" means Quit, and should return you to the A: prompt. Note: if you try to access the hard drive at this time, you should get a "Drive not ready" error. Re-boot the DOS disk, partition and format the usual way. *********************************************************
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