re: strange problem booting windows
Wednesday, January 4, 2006 at 6:03 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by bob wells
(1636 messages posted)
gewg_ has you on the right track if you'll go along with the advice.
BW
On Wednesday, January 4, 2006 at 10:06 am, RandomAct wrote:
>Ok, here's where I stand at the moment. I have created a boot disk that actually
>works...sort of. It will move past that screen and try to start up, and will take
>me to a command prompt screen. Any command from A: will work, but nothing will
work
>from C:. No scandisk, no nothing. Also interesting to note is that I was finally
>able to get it to prompt for safe mode with that boot disk in it, but when I select
>safe mode, it takes me to another command prompt. I tried running from the original
>Win98 CD, and that always gets hung up and does not complete the startup process.
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>It seems to me like the computer is acting as if the hard drive is brand new, and
>never been used, which obviously isn't true. The more and more I do this, the more
>it seems I will have to reformat, and I damn sure don't wanna do that.
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