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by dimiourgos

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my operating system is windows98 on a presario desktop. Recently, when i start the pc I get the message in a blank screen that "operating system is not found on any devise, press any button to try again" I have to shut the pc down and try again manytimes during the course of a day and sometimes two days, before I get the windows logo again and everything working fine. The sad thing is that this is reccuring, lately, every time I shut the pc off.

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by alpha-male

This kind of problem usually occurs when you have corruption of your master boot record (or a boot sector virus) or your HD is failing.

First off....back up important data RIGHT NOW.

Then:

I would virus scan your system thoroughly with current software. If that comes up clean, take the 98 system starup disk (or dl/make one - just make sure it's the right version) and fdisk /mbr to repair the master boot record. After that, I'd run disk diagnostics on the system and check the HD thoroughly. If you're seeing a lot of corrupt files etc, your drive may be going bad. I'd replace it if that is what you suspect...but if that is not an option, I'd reformat and reinstall then monitor it carefully (backing up regularly).

Good luck...hope this helps.

by b_pope

Sounds like you have some corrupt files, I'd suggest reformating your drive, even upgraging to 2000 or XP if possible, in either case make sure you have your 98 start-up disk & everything important backed-up

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