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Thursday, January 9, 2003 at 5:31 pm
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Posted by Satish (12 messages posted)

Yes!  It worked!!  I got to the EZBIOS colorful menu in one shot and could access 
the C drive and reinstall the OS.  All are going good so far...Let me see how Mr. 
Gates evolves!

Thank you so much, you are great!!
Satish






On Thursday, January 9, 2003 at 8:57 am, Michael Jurik wrote:
>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!
>
>

Written in response to:: re: Question about 'How do get the taskbar and desktop back if Explorer crashes' (Michael Jurik: Thursday, January 9, 2003 at 8:57 am)

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