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re: Boot up failure
Wednesday, February 6, 2008 at 12:53 pm
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Posted by Keith Stanier (1001 messages posted)

Hi John.

It doesn't appear to be a good description of what is happening.






On Wednesday, February 6, 2008 at 10:07 am, John G. Hanson wrote:
|Just replaced a crashed hard dive with a used, salvaged drive. 

So you've replaced the hard drive with a another drive? Did this other drive have 
an Operating System on it?

Do you have a boot disk with CD Rom drivers?

Bootdisk

A good idea would be to have Format.com and Fdisk.exe on this boot disk. Format.com 
will format the drive and check for any bad sectors. Fdisk will remove or add partitions.

|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

You don't download Windows you have to have a Win98SE CD.

So you have tried to install Win98SE?

Written in response to:: Boot up failure (John G. Hanson: Wednesday, February 6, 2008 at 10:07 am)

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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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