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My toshiba 7220cte will not load a fresh win 2ooo os , fdisked and formatted drive. tried loading from cd and floppy disk. at very end of install. unit shuts down , and states i have an invalid disk in unit. can anyone help !!! thanks , chip

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    Joe Goldman May 11, 2010

    haven't used a win 2000 cd in a while so....Using a windows xp cd - boot to the recovery console and get to a command prompt. type 'chkdsk c: /r' with no quotes. this will check the partition for file system errors. If you are able to attach the hard drive to another pc with an external usb controller, you can chkdsk that way too. If it reports no problems, try this: Create a partition on the hard drive before installing windows then install to that partition. try creating a partition with an xp cd or be resourceful and try to find a boot cd that will let you create partitions on a hard drive. hope this helps!

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If you have an invalid disk in the unit, is the floppy disk left in the disk drive.

However, to completely erase windows, fdisk and format does not work.

Download delpart.exe and use this utility. Be careful though. When delparting a laptop, make sure not to delete the small partitions, but only the ones that are NTFS.

However, if the laptop has a SATA hard drive, this method will not work unless you create a bootup script with delpart.exe to run automatically. Then it will work.

If you have any issue, blog it on the internet about the exact procedure to create an iso bootable disk to load delpart.exe.

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