Strange booting problem...

I have a problem when I boot-up my windows 98. I have two disk drives, an one
holds all my files and the other is the operating system. Well, the one with
the operating system supposingly has a virus. So I wiped out the disk drive
to get rid of the virus. Then I decided to only use that same drive to
restart the computer, and when I did... The computer started up in DOS mode,
but said there's no disk drive. Now the strange thing is that the drive is
hooked up. I looked on the booting configuration menu for the drive and it
still said it's not there. But it said I can test my drive out. Well, I
entered into the test and it showed on the test menu that my drive exists.
Out of everything, only the tests show that the drive exists. Can anyone help
me? Sorry if I didn't put this question on a more specified group.

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hi there, have you taken a look at the boot.ini file? how about the active
partitition?

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Yes. WHat should I find there that'll help me? No matter what I do, it has
more messages such as "Invalid disk drive" "No partitioning in drive c". I
changed the batteries in I believe the motherboard, or um, well my stepdad
did something like that. Also, the other time drive c exists after the bios
is shown on startup, is when I hook up the other drive, drive d. I know that
I didn't mix the drives up either. Another thing, drive c won't register,
which says that there must be a virus in the bios, but my stepdad is sure
that it can't be.

Any further help?

"fmsmcse" wrote:

> hi there, have you taken a look at the boot.ini file? how about the active
> partitition?

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please post the boot.ini content here and tell me what the active partitition
is.

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It has "no boot.ini file to view" it said. There's one active partition.

"fmsmcse" wrote:

> please post the boot.ini content here and tell me what the active partitition
> is.

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> It has "no boot.ini file to view" it said. There's one active partition.
>
> "fmsmcse" wrote:
>
> > please post the boot.ini content here and tell me what the active partitition is.

what's the exact error message?

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