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Windows 98 won't start up
A couple of weeks ago, my computer froze during shutdown.
So I held the power button down for 5 seconds until it shut down. Then, because when I do that 10 minutes later it turns back on by itsself, I turned the power supply off also. The next day when I tried to turn it on, it said it was missing a file during startup and wouldn't start. I don't know what the file was because now every time I try to start it, it says "General failure reading drive C: Abort, Retry, or Fail?" It also says that when I try to start it in safe mode. Can anyone help? Thanks in advance. |
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You need to identify and fix the failure in the hard disk drive. It might
be as simple as a dislodged cable or a configuration error, or as terminal as a failed drive. Disk drive diagnostics from the www site of the disk drive manufacturer would help in pinpointing the source of the problem. -- Jeff Richards MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User) "Roger C." wrote in message ... A couple of weeks ago, my computer froze during shutdown. So I held the power button down for 5 seconds until it shut down. Then, because when I do that 10 minutes later it turns back on by itsself, I turned the power supply off also. The next day when I tried to turn it on, it said it was missing a file during startup and wouldn't start. I don't know what the file was because now every time I try to start it, it says "General failure reading drive C: Abort, Retry, or Fail?" It also says that when I try to start it in safe mode. Can anyone help? Thanks in advance. |
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Windows 98 won't start up
You need to identify and fix the failure in the hard disk drive. It might
be as simple as a dislodged cable or a configuration error, or as terminal as a failed drive. Disk drive diagnostics from the www site of the disk drive manufacturer would help in pinpointing the source of the problem. -- Jeff Richards MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User) "Roger C." wrote in message ... A couple of weeks ago, my computer froze during shutdown. So I held the power button down for 5 seconds until it shut down. Then, because when I do that 10 minutes later it turns back on by itsself, I turned the power supply off also. The next day when I tried to turn it on, it said it was missing a file during startup and wouldn't start. I don't know what the file was because now every time I try to start it, it says "General failure reading drive C: Abort, Retry, or Fail?" It also says that when I try to start it in safe mode. Can anyone help? Thanks in advance. |
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