Can't boot to safe mode, can't get to last known good configuration. A Win 98 setup disc can't recognize a FAT partition (NTFS?), and when I attempt to boot to the CD the setup charade never happens because it says there is not even enough room for a temp folder.

It's not my machine so I don't know any history. It is a Dell 8100, and the first message you get is "Primary Hard Disk Drive 1 Not Found". If you press F1 to get it to move on it sluggishly attempts to boot, and then you get the message that windows\system32\config\system is corrupted. Dead end after that.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.


Greg