re: How to boot install windows 98 through network?
Wednesday, October 1, 2008 at 2:35 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by gewg_
(4444 messages posted)
||i cannot get to dos prompt either!
|| Ali
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|Well I don't know why you access DOS?
| Keith Stanier
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Because that is where SCANDISK/RESTORE is run--as you instructed. 8-|
|The easiest method for Win98/ME is holding the Ctrl key down.
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Which will get him the Windoze Startup Menu
--one choice of which is "Command Prompt Only" (aka DOS).
|The next method is ta[p] the F8 key every second as the computer starts up.
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Yup.
||and dont know how to access the bios of my laptop..
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Many computers put something up on your screen when it is starting
--something like **Press F2 to enter CMOS Setup**.[1]
Look for that and do what it says.
If you can't get a DOS prompt,
I'm betting the contents of your hard drive are completely hosed.
(You haven't yet said what you DO see and hear when you try to start.)
You can fart around looking at the detritus via DOS
http://www.google.com/search?q=DOS.Tutorial+DIR.Command
but that sounds like wasted time.
...and, of course, you have everything backed up.
[1] Almost all the fools in forums call this "BIOS"--which it is NOT.
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