re: Boot up failure Monday, February 25, 2008 at 6:00 am Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Jeno (220 messages posted) John - when you use a salvaged HDD you must do two things: (1) reformat it, and (2) run a scan disk on it to see if it has any bad sectors. It has been my experience that bad sectors cause install problems! If it has multiple bad sectors, trash it! On Wednesday, February 6, 2008 at 10:07 am, John G. Hanson wrote: >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!!!! Written in response to: Boot up failure (John G. Hanson: Wednesday, February 6, 2008 at 10:07 am) There are presently no replies to this message. 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) 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