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Old February 24th 08, 07:58 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.setup
Bill Watt
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Default Can I restore Windows 98 from an USB external CR-rom drive?

On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 06:36:03 -0800 (PST), DJW
wrote:

John and everyone thanks for all the help now all i am doing is
waiting for the CD-Rom I got on ebay yesterday to get here. If I have
any more software problems I will repost to this thread.


DJW,

As a last resort and before you format the drive try this.

Boot with the Wn98 Startup floppy and at the A:\ prompt enter:
C:
At the C:\ prompt enter DIR. If you can get to the C: prompt but
the DIR command doesn't display any files or folders then the Master
Boot Record (MBR) may be corrupt. If that's the case then with the
floppy still in enter:
FDISK /MBR. enter

If you get no errors then it should have worked. The drive light
just blinks once, that's all.

If it says it can't find the file then change to the A:\ prompt and
try it again.

Fdisk /mbr re-writes the Master Boot Record.

Reboot.

Regards,

Bill Watt
Win98 Computer Help & Other Information http://home.ptd.net/~bwatt/