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hey der

i am new bie..joined here because hoping others would help...

my friend office comp is havin prob... wen we start the win98...it shows win98 screen loadin but then straight away returns to a: prompt..

wat should i do...to help her...wat steps should i do to help her to start windows normally...?

i can't afford to format ..because all the important files n programs r not backedup....nn if formatted would loose all the data..

plz help..

thanxs

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To A:?

Is there a floppy in the drive?

Windows would boot off of C: (the hard drive), so any weird failure of Windows should return you to a C: prompt - at least if it was able to show ANY prompt, it ought to be C:

The fact you have an A: prompt almost certainly means she has a floppy in her drive. Should be an easy fix! (Y)

You could remove the hard disk, insert it into another computer- and back up the files?

Then you are at least safe to format, reinstall, etc.

:blink:

I would check into the booting a floppy into DOS A: prompt before pulling hard drives. ;)

I can think of no way that ANY piece of hardware could fail on a PC that would give it an "A:\" prompt. It almost certainly is booting off of a floppy.

she has floppy in the drive.. .. wat steps should i consider to take so that..my frnd's windows could start normally..??

error:

<quote>When i restart my frnd pc it shows win98 screen loading but immediately returns to A: prompt.</quote>

You can boot the PC into BIOS and find a way to change boot order to start with the hard drive, not the floppy. That will eliminate this problem in the future. (Y)
Mark is right on that one. No way would it boot to A unless you have a floppy in the drive.

In fact, I'm quite surprised Mark even used a Windows PC and thought he's say there is a disk in the drive because it booted to /dev/sda :)

:p :rofl:

yes there is a floppy in the drive... wen my frnd boots the pc it shows win98 screen loading but immediately returns to A: prompt.

so wat steps should i consider to follow inorder to start windows 98 normally?

any suggestion or help plz....

thanxs

hey mark..the first priority we hav set is hard disk..

Remove the floppy. See what happens.

If you already have it to boot hard drive first, then floppy, it might mean your drive has failed. The backup boot items would be tried in order, leaving floppy next.

Verify this by booting without the floppy. Let us know what error(s) come up at that point.

:D

Whenever I'm in doubt, I rip out the disk and back it up just in case! :p

Oh, with the settings he says she has, we may very well get to the "rip it out" stage. Or do a quick boot with a LiveCD or such. ;)

Good luck, I don't think any random member will remember how to fix WIN98 problems... Good luck tho.

Not any "random" member. But some of us are in their 40's and have been using computers since before there even was a thing called "MS-DOS". :ninja:

Ok, and OS missing fault might mean the drive is readable, but the Windows part is damaged.

Not sure if Windows 98 has a non-destructive install that will overwrite the "Windows" part, and leave the user data part intact.

I believe it does.

Other options would be to pull the drive and put it in another legacy ATA (parallel ATA) capable computer. That's the 40-pin ribbon cable.

Or boot a LiveCD that will let you browse and recover your data for backup purposes before we go much further.

hey guys...she can not remove her hard disk to insert it in other computer ..since she is not allowed..

as well as its POS Machine.

She says..wen she gets the error..operating system not found... can any one help me out..y do she get this error...

how can we solve this error and bring back windows to load normally?

thanxs

my frnd,gave her machine to the company technician.. to repair.... hope everything works out..

thanxs a lot for the help u gave me concerning the problem wich i faced...

wen i tried to search the web ..y am i getting the message operating system not found i got ppl saying i should

first fix my masterboot record... by typing fdisk /mbr and then use sys c: (where c is the drive letter where the win98 is installed).

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