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.

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
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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.

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.