re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes'
Thursday, January 9, 2003 at 8:57 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Michael Jurik
(8 messages posted)
Hello,
I think you can get out of this one since you have EZ BIOS. Here's what you do:
1. Have your Win98 boot disk handy, along with your Win 98 cd;
2. Boot the computer. As soon as you see the message "EZ BIOS starting" (or words
to that effect), IMMEDIATEDLY press the Ctrl key on your keyboard. If you perform
this operation at the right time, you will get a message asking you to insert the
boot(system) floppy. Put in the boot floppy & press enter. Take option 1 (Boot with
CD support) and when you get to the a:\ prompt, change to the drive letter that your
CD drive has been assigned. Then put in the Win 98 CD and enter "setup" (no quotation
marks). This should allow you to reinstall Win98. Just follow the prompts.
3. If you don't press Ctrl at JUST the right time, you won't get the prompt to insert
the boot disk. So, turn it off and reboot, trying again. When Starting EZ BIOS appears,
press Ctrl. Sometimes, if you press it too soon, it won't work. Likewise, if you
are a fraction of a second too slow, it won't give you the correct prompt. Keep trying
until you get the Insert boot disk (or system disk or however it will be phrased).
Until you've done this procedure many times, it is easy to mis-time the operation
and get frustrated. Keep at it. You will be able to get in, to get around the overlay
software, as it were.
Let me know what happens. I'll think about the rest of your question but right now
I'm pressed for time. Good luck!
On Wednesday, January 8, 2003 at 4:52 pm, Satish wrote:
>Yes! I see the EZ BIOS startup messages in the beginning. Also, I have a secondary
>hard drive (6GB capacity) in addition to the master (20GB), the secondary disk is
>partitioned 2GB each into 3 partitions (this is the hard drive from old system I
>used to have). I wonder if still have a chance make my primary non-dos partition
>as dos partition. If this is not possible what can be my future problems if continue
>the status quo? Can you please suggest some external backup utility/software where
>I can put all of my data into the secondary hard drive (with or without compression)
>and reformat the primary to start all over again.
>
>Thank you so much, I appreciate all your help.
>
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