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July 24th 05, 05:01 AM
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Only boot from cd rom
A friend has this old pc with win 98. It will only boot with the win 98 cd in the rom.
I tried every combination of boot sequence in the bios, the only 2 that will get the thing going is c, cd rom or cd rom , c. A menu will then come up asking to boot from hard drive or cd rom. I choose hard drive and it boots ok. Why wont it boot from c drive? 
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July 24th 05, 12:33 PM
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If its booting from the hard drive, it is booting from the "c:" drive.
"annie" wrote in message ... A friend has this old pc with win 98. It will only boot with the win 98 cd in the rom. I tried every combination of boot sequence in the bios, the only 2 that will get the thing going is c, cd rom or cd rom , c. A menu will then come up asking to boot from hard drive or cd rom. I choose hard drive and it boots ok. Why wont it boot from c drive? -- annie
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July 24th 05, 04:05 PM
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What happens when you try to boot *without* the CD in the drive? Please provide
complete exact error messages. -- Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+ http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm "annie" wrote in message ... A friend has this old pc with win 98. It will only boot with the win 98 cd in the rom. I tried every combination of boot sequence in the bios, the only 2 that will get the thing going is c, cd rom or cd rom , c. A menu will then come up asking to boot from hard drive or cd rom. I choose hard drive and it boots ok. Why wont it boot from c drive? -- annie
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