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Reinstalling WIN98SE OS

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by finalember_1

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I am trying to reinstall win98se on my cousins computer. He has win98se plus.I don't know what he did. I tried all the easy installs, I can't get past the a:> prompt. I get a BAD COMMAND error message.

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by mmurdock

If you have already formated the drive, try booting to the win98 CD. To do this, go into the BIOS and change the boot order. Make the cdrom the first boot device. If not, then make sure you have a cd bootdisk(www.bootdisk.com) that will give you access to your cd rom in dos. Boot to the boot disk, format c: and then run setup from the cd drive. If you need more detail, email me.

later,
mark

by zlitocook

Are you using a restore cd or a cd that is a Win98 cd? What happens when you boot the computer? Do you get into windows or dose it boot at all? If you can boot to the cdrom let it and choose reinstall this will over write missing a corrupt files andmay fix his computer. Are you using the command prompt in windows? Many qusetions let me know.

by finalember_1

I took the cabinet off, found a strip that was particaly unplugged. I plugged it in and the computer went right to the windows 98 plus screen. I got the start toolbar and windows to open. When I opened one I got the illegal op. and it shut the program down. Every windows was like that. The computer wanted to do a scandisk. WRONG.Now I can't get out of it. There are so many bad spots, the computer freezes. Over and Over again. Restart takes it back to the beginning.

by zlitocook

Sounds like a bad hard drive! Try using a working computer and install his hard drive as a slave. Then copy any files like favorites, any thing from my documents, organize if he uses aol and any thing else he thinks he needs. And buy a new hard drive. Reinstall Win98 and the other program and then copy the files back to where they came from.

by angsys

If you have a ghost recovery created from it means that the command.com on the ghost is not running well so what i advice you is to boot with a normal boot Floppy (win98S)and after you get the promt mode
EG: A: then change the floppy for the gosth one
that should solve the problem
tks
ear

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