re: windows 98 startup problem -- clicking noises Sunday, July 8, 2007 at 8:16 am Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Keith Stanier (1252 messages posted) As gewg says it sounds like you HD is dying. You could start your comp up in DOS mode and run Scandisk with a full scan to check any bad sectors on the drive. As you comp is staring up hold down the Ctrl key until you see the DOS menu. Select Command Prompt Only then type in Scandisk and enter. If its asking you to insert a boot disk then the startup files are probably missing or corrupt. If you have a boot disk with Sys.com on it then you can put these files back. Start the comp up with the boot disk inserted, check in you BIOS for the boot sequence to startup from the floppy. At the A:\ just type Sys C: and this will transfer you system files back to your HD. Written in response to: re: windows 98 startup problem -- clicking noises (gewg_: Friday, July 6, 2007 at 11:27 am) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] windows 98 startup problem (alexkidd86: Fri, Jul 6, 2007, 10:48 am) re: windows 98 startup problem -- clicking noises (gewg_: Fri, Jul 6, 2007, 11:27 am) re: windows 98 startup problem -- clicking noises (Keith Stanier: Sun, Jul 8, 2007, 8:16 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum