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charger759
10-19-2000, 12:31 AM
I have a 333Mhz celeron 192 meg of ram voodoo 3dfx vid card, maxtor hard drive and 44x cd rom my computer was frozen in standby mode so i restarted it, but it wouldnt restart, i put in the startup disk and ran scandisk it said i had a long file name error, it couldnt fix it so i reformatted the hard drive and when i try to reinstall windows it would at different parts give me a protection error or something then go back to dos when i clicked close.
marcusbateman
10-19-2000, 04:48 AM
A friend of mine had exactly the same problem with her Cel 333.

I fixed it by completely wiping the HDD (using fdisk.exe in DOS).

Repartition the HDD then use your Windows startup disk etc.....and reinstall windows.

If you comletely wipe the HDD you should have no trouble with the reinstall. Just hope you backed up you files recently!!