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Windows 98 will not boot

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by trclerk2

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windows 98 will not boot now. It comes up with a black screen that says disk error. When I try to go into Bios to select Safe Mode, it comes up with the same error. This happened when I was trying to uninstall Windows XP, and someone told me to go into the setup and change the Bootup Sequence from C to A. But now I don't know how to change it back. Could this be my booting problem? Thanks

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by thechas

When you removed XP, you lost the files required to boot from the hard drive.

You need to do a couple of things.

Boot from a W 98 startup disk.

At the DOS prompt, run the command
fdisk /mbr

Then, run the command
sys c:

You should now be able to boot up.

Chas

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