Formatting problem

[POLLY]

I just sent this to " General Discussion" and realized that perhaps it should be on this thread.



This is my first post on this forum. I am trying to reformat my hard drive and reinstall WIN98. I bought a Fdisk floppy, and succesfully reformated several other hard drives, ( old ones) for the learning experience. However I am having trouble reformatting this current HD.

To back up and give you a bit of what is going on,
I started to install WINXP on this HD back a few months ago. It never completed the setup and I then went in and deleted some of the files, to try and get rid of it.( major " NO NO"!)...Now when it boots, I am asked " which operating system " I want to start the computer with.......1.Microsoft Windows XP Set Up", or 2. Microsoft Windows. If I choose the WindowsXP set up, it says " Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt.....
\system32\hal.dll. Please re-install a copy of the above file.

If I go to the second choice, "Microsoft Windows", my WIN98 boots up fine.

When I try to format using the Fdisk, at the format c:/s.........after the Warning, I say "Y"......then it comes up " insufficient memory".

Ok.........anyone care to help me figure this out. I would really appreciate it.
Polly

[glc]

Polly, please don't start multiple threads on the same issue. Thank you!

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