Mord Posted December 27, 2004 Share Posted December 27, 2004 I am in the middle of helping my cousin with a reinstall of 98 on her comp. She was having alot of problems so I figured we'd start from scratch. We have reformated the hardrive but she doesn't have a 98 boot disk. Everytime we reboot the comp it comes up trying to read the floppy drive. Without the boot disk we just get an error message that it can't read the drive. We can't get past this. her boot order is C:(HD) D:(CD) A:(Floppy) Now I know there is a way to get around this because it happened to me last year, (my boot disc was bad and wouldn't work) but I can't remember what the hell I did. Everything we've tried hasn't worked. To make it worse I am helping her over the phone! To make it even worse than that I have a boot disk right here! How do I get her comp to boot from the D Drive? Or atleast get it back to the C prompt or D prompt? Anything to get me away from the Abort Fail Retry hell that we are stuck in. Mord. [ December 27, 2004, 04:54 PM: Message edited by: Mord ] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schrullenhaft Posted December 28, 2004 Share Posted December 28, 2004 If she has the Win98 install CD she should be able to boot off of it (IIRC). To change the boot order you go into the CMOS/BIOS setup and depending on the BIOS she'll go into some sort of menu that will set the boot order. She should be able to change this to the CDROM drive (unless she has a really old computer). How did you perform the reformat of the hard drive without the boot disk; boot into the command prompt and then do it there ? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mord Posted December 28, 2004 Author Share Posted December 28, 2004 I had her restart her comp in MS Dos mode and then we reformated from there. Once that was done we couldn't get the command promp to switch over to D. So she restarted the comp and then it would only aim iself at the A drive during reboots. The other problem is that so far she hasn't come up with an actual Win98 disk. The only thing she seems to have that is close is a Compaq recovery Disk. It has some kinda Windows copyright on it so I am figuring it has 98 on there. Not sure though. Her comp is atleast four years old. It's a compaq and is running a Celeron Processor at around 650mghz. To be on the safe side I am going to send her a floppy in the mail incase we can't get in to work. Mord. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mord Posted December 28, 2004 Author Share Posted December 28, 2004 Thanks Schrullenhaft. It ended up working by resetting the boot order of the drives. That's what I had to do with mine last year, it all came back to me once we did it. I appreciate the help, everytime you've helped me over the last four years as a matter of fact. Your why I usually post my pc problems here instead of some other forum on the web. You've always given me good advice. Thanks. Mord. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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