Heartofgold Posted July 16, 2005 Author Share Posted July 16, 2005 If I try last known working and/or normal startup I end up with a black screen. If I go into safe mode, safe mode with command, safe mode with networking then I can get in but I'm not sure what to check for or what to do about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dman Posted July 16, 2005 Share Posted July 16, 2005 Are you still trying to get rid of XP? or are you trying to get it working now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heartofgold Posted July 16, 2005 Author Share Posted July 16, 2005 Under "Services" in Control Panel. All services have been disable. Should there be some that are abled and if so, which ones? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chilifrei64 Posted July 16, 2005 Share Posted July 16, 2005 your still not booting to the CD... you need to boot to your windows 98 cd and use Boot with CD-Rom Support.. once you get to a command prompt FDISK the partition Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heartofgold Posted July 16, 2005 Author Share Posted July 16, 2005 Are you still trying to get rid of XP? or are you trying to get it working now?<{POST_SNAPBACK}>I guess both!! I'm trying to get it to work to show them it's good. But if it's going to take a lot of time that I don't have then I'd like to put windows 98SE on it a.s.a.pHere's the Story which I guess I should have told you all before.It use to work great, but they had no protection on it. They got alot of virsues, they had a local boy work on it and he charged them over $100.00 dollars. He told them he had gotten rid of them all. This was about a year ago. Now they are having this problem. He had put in Norton antivus for them at the time.Not sure what version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heartofgold Posted July 16, 2005 Author Share Posted July 16, 2005 your still not booting to the CD... you need to boot to your windows 98 cd and use Boot with CD-Rom Support.. once you get to a command prompt FDISK the partition<{POST_SNAPBACK}>I got into the bios and it shows to boot to CD-Rom first. I put the Windows 98SE disk into the CD-Rom and restart the computer but nothing happens Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dman Posted July 16, 2005 Share Posted July 16, 2005 You need to do a “repair” installation of xp. Try the instructions in this link. You have nothing to lose. If it doesn’t work then just proceed with the fdisk of partition.http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dman Posted July 16, 2005 Share Posted July 16, 2005 (edited) your still not booting to the CD... you need to boot to your windows 98 cd and use Boot with CD-Rom Support.. once you get to a command prompt FDISK the partition<{POST_SNAPBACK}>I got into the bios and it shows to boot to CD-Rom first. I put the Windows 98SE disk into the CD-Rom and restart the computer but nothing happens<{POST_SNAPBACK}>then something is wrong with your 98 disk or cdrom. You will need to be able to boot from the xp cd to do xp repair install. You can run fdisk and install 98 from a boot floppy if you need to. Edited July 16, 2005 by dman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chilifrei64 Posted July 16, 2005 Share Posted July 16, 2005 do you have a 98 floppy boot disk.. sounds like this would be easier.. set your bios to boot to that and fdisk the partitionIt sounds to me you are hitting F8 to get advanced troubleshooting options... try not to hit the F8 key during the boot process Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heartofgold Posted July 16, 2005 Author Share Posted July 16, 2005 do you have a 98 floppy boot disk.. sounds like this would be easier.. set your bios to boot to that and fdisk the partitionIt sounds to me you are hitting F8 to get advanced troubleshooting options... try not to hit the F8 key during the boot process<{POST_SNAPBACK}>Crap!@! Looks like the Floppy disks doesn't work either. I think I'm going to walk away from this for awhile. I'll like you all know if anything changes. Thanks for the help. I called them and they are trying to find the disk for Windows XP Pro. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
^_^ Posted July 16, 2005 Share Posted July 16, 2005 you need the full original win98 cd to be bootable usually, if it's a copy, it's probably not bootable you can make a boot cd from a computer from a file at http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm just choose the win98SE OEM filethat should make a bootable win98 diskyou probably will have to go into the bios again and make the floppy the first boot devicethen once you have fdisk and formatted the partition, you just need to type d:\win98\setup to start windows installation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heartofgold Posted July 16, 2005 Author Share Posted July 16, 2005 Great news. They found the copy of XP Pro, so I can use the recovery mode. Thanks everyone for your help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dman Posted July 16, 2005 Share Posted July 16, 2005 (edited) make sure you have KEY!!!if not recover it in safe mode before doing repair install!http://www.magicaljellybean.com/keyfinder.shtml Edited July 16, 2005 by dman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heartofgold Posted July 17, 2005 Author Share Posted July 17, 2005 make sure you have KEY!!!if not recover it in safe mode before doing repair install!http://www.magicaljellybean.com/keyfinder.shtml<{POST_SNAPBACK}>I do have the key. Wish me luck. I'm going to go with a clean install. Nothing to lose on the hard drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OrcoXP Posted July 17, 2005 Share Posted July 17, 2005 Recovery or Repairing is such a HACK JOB way of doing it...So as it stands...You can't boot from the 98 CDYou can't boot from the 98 Startup diskYou were able to get into the bios but did you find the setting for the boot order?What type of computer is this?F10 is an unusual way of getting into the bios.Can you boot with the XP CD?You're really better off installing a fresh copy and wiping everything...if you are using the XP CD you can forget the whole fdisk thing...it's not necessary for this route. Even the 98 CD may ask you to format the drive because it won't recognize the ntfs partition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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