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re: Boot up failure
Friday, February 8, 2008 at 10:10 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Lee
(162 messages posted)
You are using terms that are not accurate or even slightly accurate at all, such
as downloading windows. Windows is installed and NOT downloaded.
A wiped drive is totally empty and will do nothing. Yours obviously does something
so your drive CAN'T be wiped as you claim and it isn't.
What you are seeing briefly is the Windows 98 splash screen which is a bit map file
integrated into 98's io.sys file and this only shows briefly when the file is loaded
from the hard drive and Windows has not been installed yet. Again, your drive
can't be wiped if you see that, don't say it's wiped when it isn't - I wonder what
you did do to it instead of wiping it?
My suggestions include that you double check your boot up sequence in the BIOS and
change it temporarily to A:, C:, and CDROM. Then a get a bootdisk from http://www.bootdisk.com/ and boot the machine with the boot disk.
I will also suggest that you install Windows from the hard drive as found in these
sites.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/robert.bale4/formatinstall.htm
http://freepctech.com/guides.shtml
http://www.pcnineoneone.com/howto/
Bart's Disktool will wipe that
drive for you which I recommend since you don't know what's on it already...
- Written in response to:
- Boot up failure (John G. Hanson: Wednesday, February 6, 2008 at 10:07 am)
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