Well,, i have a computer here,, that used to run on windows 98, had a intel celron 566mhz, 64 megs a ram, ehh and the other stuff doesnt really matter,, my problem is,, for some reason, it quit booting up 98 and now just starts in DOS,, and i dont know where to go from here,, i hope to get windows 98 on it again,, it should still be on there,, any idea wouls be great
Boy, it has been so long since I had 98, but I remember something about a command that you could type at the dos prompt. It was something like: scanreg C: /restore or scanreg C: /fix That would bring up the last 4 good registry entries, and you picked the one with a date before you had problems, and click on it. I am not sure if that is the command or not, but you could try it.
wow, thank you very much,, but, it told me i needed to delete some files, and try it again,, so, wow thank you, and i will comment more results in a few mins
With win98, you had the option of shutting down windows and running dos for compatability reasons. Try this. After it boots to a dos prompt, type exit. This may quit the "dos session" that windows started. Next I would just type win at the command prompt. This should launch windows. If this works, check your autoexec.bat file. Type 'type autoexec.bat' from the C:\> prompt. The last line should be win.com, or win. If it is not there, then type 'edit autoexec.bat' and add win to the last line. Close and save the changes to the file. Then reboot the machine and windows should boot at bootup. Good luck. ~Rich
I have seen the option to boot to the GUI changed in msdos.sys in 9x systems before. IF the BootGUI line is set to 0 in will only boot to DOS From a command prompt type cd \ Type attrib msdos.sys -r -a -s -h Type edit msdos.sys See if there is a line that says BOOTGUI=0 If you see that, change it to BOOTGUI=1 Save it and reset the attribs Type attrib msdos.sys +r +a +s +h
