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by fulfergirl

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Do I need help My daughter try to put aol internet on her Packer Bell computer Windows 98 and it crash I try to get into safe mode to del the file it stuc the load os will come up then f 1 to enter set up I try to run win 98 again also the startup 98 disk it go so far and quit message can't load windows 98 how can I run the f disk or format when I can't get into the window or dos or what to do Thanks BJ

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by r. a. caluste

if you have a cdrom drive, try to boot from windows 98 cd. you have to enter the setup bios screen though and set boot sequence priority to cd first then floppy disk then harddisk. when the pc boots from cd, you have the option to reformat or repartition drive.

by thechas

BJ,

What you need is a W98 startup floppy.

If needed, enter BIOS setup and change the boot sequence to boot from floppy first.

CAUTION, RUNNING FDISK WILL DELETE ALL FILES ON THE HARD DRIVE!
MAKE SURE YOU HAVE BACKUPS OF ALL CRITICAL FILESAND PROGRAMS.

Then, run fdisk and delete the primary partition.
Re-boot, run fdisk again to create a primary DOS partion, and make the partition active.

Re-boot, and format the C: drive.

Then have the W98 CD in the CD drive, and run setup.

You should be all set for a clean install of windows.

Chas

by zlitocook

Before you reformat try the other answers to you get to the cd. It should say do you want to reinstall say yes. It should copy files that are missing or corrupt and let your system boot up. Did you have a antivirus program installed? If so do you have boot disks for it. If so try them first.

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