re: strange problem booting windows
Tuesday, January 3, 2006 at 10:06 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by RandomAct
(23 messages posted)
Here's the main problem. Nothing I do will take me past that blank screen. The
closest I got was with my boot disk attempt, and then, it told me that I had an invalid
startup disk. I can't go into DOS or safe mode. I'm thinking the key may be a valid
boot disk, but is becoming hard to obtain.
On Tuesday, January 3, 2006 at 12:00 am, gewg_ wrote:
>|...select Command prompt only...
>|Type win or exit to return to Windows.
>| bob wells
>
>Some quibbles:
>
>You won't be *returning* to Windows; you will be *starting* Windows (with WIN).
>
>If you type EXIT from Real DOS, it is a waste of time
>(unless you typed COMMAND first).
>Invoking a nested copy of COMMAND.COM is called "shelling out".
>You *can* EXIT from a shell; you can't EXIT from Real DOS.
|
All messages in this thread [show all]
 | | |  | re: strange problem booting windows (RandomAct: Tue, Jan 3, 2006, 10:06 am) |
| |
| |
| |
Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum
|
|
