re: W98 doesnt see command.com in DOS mode restart
Tuesday, June 17, 2003 at 1:39 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by siv
(2 messages posted)
thanks a lot, Mac for the suggestion(bootdisk ->SYS C)
dont have a floppy drive but using a bootCD put me on the trail.
in case this helps anyone. the problem turned out to be that the w98 partition was
hidden. apparently w98 in graphical mode can see it and boot but DOS mode cant.
the solution was to unhide the partition in the bootloader.
the key to troubleshooting was finding out what partition the unsuccessful dos boot
was looking at. adapting macs suggestion allowed a minimal dos to be loaded from
bootCD. then DIR revealed that dos was looking at a wrong fat16 partition in a faraway
place.
On Sunday, June 15, 2003 at 11:01 am, siv wrote:
>When i restart Windows 98 in DOS mode, it keeps asking me to type the name of the
>command line interpreter (suggesting C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM as a candidate) with
>the following prompt
>
>C > (not C:)
>
>The problem is that COMMAND.COM is present in the WINDOWS directory and elsewhere
>but no matter what combination address i try (including the suggested one, D:\,
E:\
>etc), W98 doesnt seem to see the file.
>
>i have a number of multiboot partitions. the primary ones are
>1. W2000 root
>2. Linux boot (grub bootloader)
>3. W98
>
>i've just been using the pc a couple of months so i'm stumped by this.
>Can anyone ,
>1. explain why
>2. provide a reference to good documentation on how windows uses system files like
>msdos.sys, what exactly happens when one chooses DOS-restart mode etc so that i
can
>understand the background
>3. suggest what i can do to get back to the w98 graphical mode without having to
>reinstall. i can still get into the w98 partition using the other OSs..
>
>i'd be grateful for any leads,
>thanks, siv
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