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Broken_dad
January 8th, 2005, 03:10 AM
Hi everyone,
I was running a restore disk. and at one point when I was asked to remove disk and restart computer. I hit the power button shuting down the system. when I turned it back on it was finding all the drives ect... It then came up:
Error 1 loading OS. This may be due to a virus.
1. Shutdown.
2. Reboot from Floppy.
3. Run ONTRACK Disk Manager.
4. Select "Upgrade" from Advanced Options

When I shutdown to restart and I insert the floppy all it does then is:
Searching for Boot Record from Floppy..OK

Starting windows 98...

Microsoft (R) Windows 98
(C) Copyright Microsoft Corp 1991-1999

A:\>

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I know it need a command to continue But for the life of me I can't figure it out. Many Many Thanks for your help.

InvalidOpcode83
January 8th, 2005, 03:30 AM
u try changing to c: and typing 'win' (no quotes)?

Broken_dad
January 8th, 2005, 05:48 AM
I was able to change to C: win it would still reply bad command or file name.

zack_rage
January 8th, 2005, 06:05 AM
are you able to go safe mode?



cheers!

Broken_dad
January 8th, 2005, 06:35 AM
No I tried that unless you know another way

zack_rage
January 8th, 2005, 04:32 PM
tap ctrl or f8 before going to windows 98 screen!




cheers!

Broken_dad
January 9th, 2005, 12:53 AM
Hi, Zach I tried that too. no luck

zack_rage
January 9th, 2005, 05:39 AM
do you have bootdisk? if you have tried this
hi think you have some corrupt registry
try sfc it will solve the problem.

from the dos prompt
a:/> c:

c:/> dir/w
c:/> windows
c:/> cd windows
c:/> sfc
if not work you should reinstall 98!