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HD failure to Boot

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by rcgcl Apr 25, 2003 last reply Jun 28, 2003

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I removed a HD from one of my computers and made it a slave in another then formated/s it in Dos then copied cabs files for windows98. Later I removed it put back in it's original computer but it failed to boot. Later I managed to format it and installed windows98 but during the installation when it tries to reboot it hangs and fails to continue. Kindly help me out of this mess.

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by whw Apr 25, 2003

Find yourself a W98 rescue disk (hopefully you created it when you installed 98) and use it to boot the machine. Then from the command prompt type

sys a\: c:

If that doesn't work try
fdisk /mbr
sys a\: c:

HIH

by rcgcl Jun 28, 2003

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by pesk, mbcs, mcse, mcitp, sts Apr 25, 2003

If the computer you used to read the HD was XP, the HD will be unreadable and you will have to format it using Win98. You can, however, copy over your documents an stuff before this and transfer them later using a CD or floppies.