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by gary

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Currently running win 98. Received an error that said missing win.com files. Have tried numerous ways to find and have not been successful. I am being told that I have to reinstall 98. The only thing that comes up is a c prompt. It also appears that my DVD and CDRW drive are not working. Cannot seem to get the DVD drive to recognise there is a disk in it. Need immediately help. Gary

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by james goerke

Well, it looks like the fastest way is to just re-install 98 since you cant get windows running. Your Windows 98 Boot Disk (hope you have one, if not, you can either make one at another win 98 Computer) will load the drivers for your CD-ROM(s). Then you should be able to re-install from there. If you do happen to get windows up without re-installing then you can type in sfc in the run box and then that will launch the system file checker were you can re-install any system file off the windows CD to where it is suppose to be. Hope this helps.

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by gary

thanks for the info. Indoing this reinstall, will I just overwrite the current win98. I am trying to keep all my data. I do have a microsoft boot disk second edition. When I have reinstalled windows before I do not remenber using this disk. I just used the CD rom and installed windows. Am I missing something. Is there something written that will guide me through this. thanks.

by jellimonsta

Windows 98 does not use file system security so it will not remove any previously installed programs and saved data (unlike 2000). You can safely reinstall 98 using your Windows 98 CD. Boot the system with the boot floppy in the A drive and choose setup Windows 98 from the commands. You can also go to the command prompt and type X:\setup (where X represents your CDROM drive letter usually D)
Windows 98 will also boot from the CD if you reboot with the CD in your drive. Just run a typical install and you should be up and running in no time.

by mcarlso1

Try connecting CDRW to the Hard Drive IDE cable as a slave and ths HDD as the Primary or both as Cable select.

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