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Answer» I erased by hard drive due to some problems I was having. I have a boot disk and am trying to get my pc to boot windows so I can go in and restore my machine with the restore cds. I do not know what commands to type. Any and all info is greatly appreciated. Thanks. I erased by hard drive due to some problems I was having. I have a boot disk and am trying to get my pc to boot windows so I can go in and restore my machine with the restore cds. I do not know what commands to type. Any and all info is greatly appreciated. Thanks. By "boot disk", you mean a boot floppy disk - right? (as opposed to a boot CD disc) Not sure about "restore" cds. I've always used a generic, full install, Windows98 CD. 'Restore' sort of implies an OEM disc from a computer manufacturer. It might work the same though.... Boot from the floppy. Assuming it boots all ok, you will be at the command line. It will LOOK like: A:\> Put your Windows98 install CD disc in the CD drive. You need to navigate to that drive at the command line. The CD drive is most likely either D: drive or E: drive. (When I boot with my Win98 boot disk, my CD drive becomes E: ) To navigate to it, type the drive letter followed by a COLON, then HIT the enter key. As in: D: or E: If you chose a letter that is non-existant - i.e. no drive has that letter - you'll get an error message. No harm done, it is just telling you. Try D: If you get no error message, you've successfully changed to the D: drive. To find out if you are on the CD drive, use the dir command. Type dir Look for setup.exe . If you don't see it, try E: drive. Again, use the dir command to view the files. Once you find the setup program, execute it. Type setup followed by the enter key. That should launch the beginning of the install for you. I hope this helps. Thanks, but I am an idot because i still can not get to work. I have a boot floppy that lets me boot up ms dos. Then I have a HP Recovery CD and a Win 98SE boot cd. I can not get out of dos and get windows to load. Any more info would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. There is no setup in the dir.http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm copy the OEM disk for Windows 98 and than boot your machine from this disk.... It will get you started. THANK YOU!THANK YOU!THANK YOU!THANK YOU!THANK YOU!THANK YOU! I APPRECIATE THE INFO IT DID THE TRICK, AND NOW I CAN FINISH SETTING UP MY NETWORK. THANKS SPOILER. MARK |
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