Hello Brad,

Saturday, April 20, 2002, 4:01:38 PM, you wrote:

BL> Hello,
BL> I am helping a friend some distance from me so I do not have the ability to
BL> look at the machine. He had three partitions on a 6gb drive and wanted to
BL> revert back to a single partition. Also wiping all information from the
BL> machine as it was his old business machine. I had him enter fdisk, from a
BL> Win98 Boot disk, deleted all partitions, recreated a single 6GB partition
BL> and made it active. He has formatted both with no /s and with /s. The
BL> problem arises when booting with a Win98 boot disk, if he selects load with
BL> CD-ROM support after a moment all he gets is a blinking cursor in the lower
BL> left of the screen with no A or C prompt. He has tried 4 different boot
BL> disks to no avail, same problem.

BL> This is a PII 266 stock Dell with 128mb ram. Win98 1st.

BL> Brad Loomis

It looks that your old PC don't work with CD as loading device.
So try to run sys.com from a loading floppy. In the case of Win98,
loading floppy can be runned with CD support. Copy your Win98 in the
Install Folder on your HDD, and run install Win98 from HDD.



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Best regards,
 Yakymakha

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