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| Thread ID: 45229 | 2004-05-14 22:39:00 | Win98se stuck on startup at win98 image | nzotago (2257) | Press F1 |
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| 236662 | 2004-05-14 22:39:00 | Hi all, Shutdown my comp last night fine, but will not go past the windows98 image on startup now, I've tried starting in safe mode and done a scanreg thru DOS prompt to no avail. I'm getting a sinking feeling about my problem here. This has happened before on another computer which ended up having a faulty hard drive and I lost everything. Any suggestions as to possible causes or solutions would certainly help reduce my stress levels. Cheers Nathan |
nzotago (2257) | ||
| 236663 | 2004-05-14 22:49:00 | Hi again, some progress I can see the files by going through dos prompt however it's been a long time since I've done DOS and even then I was pretty unknowledgable. So not if this will help me? |
nzotago (2257) | ||
| 236664 | 2004-05-14 22:55:00 | You mean you can't get into Safe Mode? | mark c (247) | ||
| 236665 | 2004-05-14 23:04:00 | Yeah, when I try and load safemode it still just hangs at the win98 image, I tried leaving it for about half an hour but still no movement | nzotago (2257) | ||
| 236666 | 2004-05-14 23:13:00 | Long Shot - try the reset button while it is stuck,and hold down the Ctrl key. Bye |
Peter H (220) | ||
| 236667 | 2004-05-14 23:17:00 | Sounds wierd. I'm pleased it hasn't happened to me:D Yet. I'd try ctrl+alt+del and see what happens. |
mark c (247) | ||
| 236668 | 2004-05-15 01:49:00 | If you have a Win98 boot disk, boot up from that, and at the A: prompt type sys c: This will replace the system files, just in case IO.sys or msdos.sys have gone funny. The other thing to try, also from the boot disk A: prompt is to type fdisk /mbr This will replace the master boot record in case that has become corrupted. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 236669 | 2004-05-15 02:02:00 | Try a repair install from the Win98 cd. It usually works when you have a problem like this. Put the cd in and go through the normal installation process. It probably won't detect your current install, but if you install right over the top of it it shouldn't delete any of your files. |
kiki (762) | ||
| 236670 | 2004-05-15 12:51:00 | Thanks everyone for their replys I will give this a try tomorrow once I've gotten over the Chiefs having their first Super 12 final appearance stolen from them (sob). Cheers Nathan |
nzotago (2257) | ||
| 236671 | 2004-05-16 11:54:00 | if none of the above work this may give you a hint to whats happening behind that windows screen push the esc key when it appears. It may reveal a dos error message or try a step by step safe mode boot means pressing the y key a few times though |
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