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Boot up failure
Wednesday, February 6, 2008 at 10:07 am
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Posted by John G. Hanson (2 messages posted)

Just replaced a crashed hard dive with a used, salvaged drive. Cannot get windows downloaded. At start up it goes thru the initial phases and after skimming over a windows page (in microseconds), it seeks additional input - c:\>_ What should be entered? Since it is a drive wiped clean and I haven't actually downloaded windows on it yet I'm at a loss to understand why it shows up briefly and moves along to the final status indicated or what input is required. Suggestions!!!!

Responses to this message:
re: Boot up failure (Keith Stanier: Wednesday, February 6, 2008 at 12:53 pm)

I only see a DOS prompt -- substituted HDD (gewg_: Wednesday, February 6, 2008 at 1:09 pm)

re: Boot up failure (Lee: Friday, February 8, 2008 at 10:10 pm)

re: Boot up failure (Jeno: Monday, February 25, 2008 at 6:00 am)

All messages in this thread [show all]

Boot up failure (John G. Hanson: Wed, Feb 6, 2008, 10:07 am)

re: Boot up failure (Keith Stanier: Wed, Feb 6, 2008, 12:53 pm)

I only see a DOS prompt -- substituted HDD (gewg_: Wed, Feb 6, 2008, 1:09 pm)

re: I only see a DOS prompt -- substituted HDD (John G. Hanson: Wed, Feb 6, 2008, 1:32 pm)

I see a DOS prompt; want to install W98 from my CD (gewg_: Wed, Feb 6, 2008, 1:42 pm)

re: Boot up failure (Lee: Fri, Feb 8, 2008, 10:10 pm)

re: Boot up failure (Jeno: Mon, Feb 25, 2008, 6:00 am)

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