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No Shutdown / No DOS Win 98

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by lo 1 view

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My Win98 hangs in shutdown now, booting to DOS just hangs. Had: Linux/Win98 with a 3.1gb / 6.4gb. LILO required 3.1 to boot. I put in a 20gb using DriveImage. After I moved it and disconnedted the 3.1/6.4 I got the problem. Any idea why. Any Ideas on how to correct (reluctant to just reinstall-98. I did a SYS C: after booting a Win98 Startup disk, didn't help. Haven't looked in previous memos/FAQ, will try that also. Posted a Hang in Shutdown for a friend some time back, that had some good how to.

thx, lo

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by grantcom

First thing I would do would be to Run the System File Checker. Then Run Configuration Utility and remove all entries except Explorer and Systray and uncheck load Autoexec.bat and Config.sys. I would also look in the Registry (Be careful and Back itup)under HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Run and also Run Services and remove all unnecessary entries. If it screws things up just into Safe Mode and reset them. I would also try going into Safe Mode and see what a shutdown does there.

by grantcom

Also, have you loaded all of the Win98 SE service pasks...it has a shutdown supplement.

by lo

Hi - Didn't get to your solution. In poking around to a similar question, I found the 'real' problem. I deleted my C: directory thinking it was a Jaz disk. Aborted and UnDeleted (guess it didn't really undelete). I have a COMMAND.COM in C:\ and C:\WINDOWS. The files are cross linked. I changed C:\ file with a different title (added "C:\" to existing). Change showed up in C:\WINDOWS. I think I need a reload/restore or some such. I am re-posting with real problem. thx, lo

by vassilis.dimitriou

Hi
i think that this problem has to do with the
mbr of your hard drives.
why don't you try to fix your disk with this parameter from clean dos.....
FDISK /MBR
this updates your mbr
SYS c: doesn't do anything at all

i hope you will makeit

by lo

Hi - Thanks for the reply. I should have added to my question that I did FDISK /MBR (had to to get LILO off the disk, it did LI then hung right after I completed the DRIVEIMAGE process. Prior to my doing DRIVEIMAGE this was a working/happy system. Booted LILO, then Win NT (may be the problem) and Win 98 from that. Thinking, I think I lost Win NT also. lo

by ramesh_mandya

Hi
I am Ramesh from bangalore, India
I had a similar problem. I just went the registry HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer and change "Shutdown Setting" to earlier 2 to 0 (Zero). It worked fine.

You may try it. Good luck

bye,

by lo

Ramesh - Thanks for response. Didn't try your solution. I found the 'real' problem in applying the first. Isn't what it seemed. lo

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