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I really need some help to fix a PC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
26.02.05 at 19:25:45

I think my friend's gonna kill me if I can't fix up his PC which I just screwed up!

Cry

Please!

Here's the situation:

I was working under Win98, with the boot.ini file. Then I think I put one "=" which I shouldn't have. So now the PC starts up but stops at the "select your OS" or something similar screen. It shows W98 line and W2000 line because I once tried to install W2K on the pc but that's not the problem.

Embarrassed

How am I gonna install W98??? I have the CD and I know I can make the boot disk but can you tell me how am I gonna do? I'm going into depression since by tomorrow at 1pm I need to know what to do and how to fix it! I guess I can boot with the disk is it? Where can I get the boot disk???

Lips Sealed

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LuxKiller65 God Member Offline Posts: 680 Luxembourg Gender:	Re: I really need some help to fix a PC!!!!!!!!!!! Reply #1 - 26.02.05 at 19:36:55 Uh? What's that? I just need to install W98 so that my friend won't use my head as a football ball.
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The_Doctor Ex Member	Re: I really need some help to fix a PC!!!!!!!!!!! Reply #2 - 26.02.05 at 19:43:35 Then put the CD-Rom in and select "boot from CD rom" in your BIOS, Restart and boot into 98 setup. I would advise the use of advanced linux distrobutions tho (but mine would still be better with a custom kernel )
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LuxKiller65 God Member Offline Posts: 680 Luxembourg Gender:	Re: I really need some help to fix a PC!!!!!!!!!!! Reply #3 - 26.02.05 at 19:48:50 You're starting to make me feel sick with your useless advertising of your damned Linux version, here and in the other topic too. This is no spot forum.
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paulpsomiadis God Member Offline -=3Dfx still rox!=- Posts: 2011 Newcastle U.K. Gender:	Re: I really need some help to fix a PC!!!!!!!!!!! Reply #4 - 26.02.05 at 19:58:52 Okay - sensible answers now! @LuxKiller65 - if you screwed with the boot.ini then you can boot into DOS with a boot disk and do the following... 1. Run DOS "Edit". 2. Load up the Boot.ini 3. Figure out what you did wrong... 4. Fix 'n' save. Done! 8)
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LuxKiller65 God Member Offline Posts: 680 Luxembourg Gender:	Re: I really need some help to fix a PC!!!!!!!!!!! Reply #5 - 26.02.05 at 20:10:47 Oh, thanks for the "*" Wait wait wait, you mean I can just use the boot disk from win98 from bootdisk.com (the OEM one?) and then put it at the start of the PC? Then what do I do? What menu will show up? what line must I write? c:\edit boot.ini ?
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paulpsomiadis God Member Offline -=3Dfx still rox!=- Posts: 2011 Newcastle U.K. Gender:	Re: I really need some help to fix a PC!!!!!!!!!!! Reply #6 - 26.02.05 at 20:27:30 Any boot disk will do... As long as you can run EDIT and fix the mistake you made in the "Boot.ini"... ...assuming you can remember where the extra "=" is? ??? Good luck!
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gamma742 God Member Offline 3Dfx Gamer Posts: 1668 San Diego, CA USA Gender:	Re: I really need some help to fix a PC!!!!!!!!!!! Reply #7 - 26.02.05 at 20:29:55 Not sure it edit.com is on the boot disk is it? This is easy to fix once you boot to DOS and invoke the edit command and edit the BOOT.INI file. You may need to CD (change directory) to where the edit command is located then type "edit c:\boot.ini" without the quotes.
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Re: I really need some help to fix a PC!!!!!!!!!!!
Reply #8 - 26.02.05 at 20:39:58

I just tried to simulate the situation on this PC.

Tongue

I put the Windows 98 boot disk
I choose "start with CD-ROM support"
The program loads the needed drivers
It leaves me to "A:\"
I type down "C:\" and then "edit"
It takes me a menu where I can choose from the drives I have (A, C, D, E)
I choose C but there is no boot.ini file to choose from (maybe because it is a system-protected file?)!

So how do I go to that bloody (that's an okay word, is it?) boot.ini file? I really just need to cancel some lines I put in the file!

Cry

Maybe, where I'm on the "A:\" prompt, that is where I type down "edit c:\boot.ini"?

???

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Re: I really need some help to fix a PC!!!!!!!!!!!
Reply #9 - 26.02.05 at 20:55:54

..I have norton commander 5 on a diskette for such cases.what I do:
1)in BIOS,set boot from cd.insert win98 cd,save and exit
2)select: run the pc from cd (or something like that,I dont have an english version of win),do not launch win98 setup,only run the pc with the help of the cd
3)you should end in the dos prompt.now insert the nc5 diskette,and run nc5 (mine is b:\nc5\nc)
4)you will be in the norton commander.really easy to modify,delete or add stuff here.do the changes you want,and restart the pc (remove the cd and the diskette first)..

if you dont have such a nc5 diskette,you can get it here (just extract the archive to a diskette.its not a full nc5,just a small part you need)..

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LuxKiller65 God Member Offline Posts: 680 Luxembourg Gender:	Re: I really need some help to fix a PC!!!!!!!!!!! Reply #10 - 26.02.05 at 21:00:46 You'll end up with me having a heart attack! Can't I just do it the way I was trying to describe? I just need to know how to get to the boot.ini, since now I know how to get to the "a:\".
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LuxKiller65 God Member Offline Posts: 680 Luxembourg Gender:	Re: I really need some help to fix a PC!!!!!!!!!!! Reply #11 - 26.02.05 at 21:57:51 Can somebody running Windows 98 paste here the content of the boot.ini file?
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akula65 Full Member Offline Don't Feed the Trolls Posts: 155 Gender:	Re: I really need some help to fix a PC!!!!!!!!!!! Reply #12 - 26.02.05 at 22:08:47 Windows 98 doesn't use the boot.ini file. Only NT Kernel OSes use it (WinNT, Win2K, WinXP).
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LuxKiller65 God Member Offline Posts: 680 Luxembourg Gender:	Re: I really need some help to fix a PC!!!!!!!!!!! Reply #13 - 26.02.05 at 22:09:45 But the Windows 98 of my friend stopped working after I wrongly modified the boot.ini file!
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FalconFly YaBB Administrator Offline 3dfx Archivist Posts: 2445 5335N 00745E Gender:	Re: I really need some help to fix a PC!!!!!!!!!!! Reply #14 - 26.02.05 at 22:15:39 Why don't you just re-edit it then ? Boot from a CD or a Bootdisk and edit the File, finished (?)
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