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I have a Leading Edge 486 with Windows 3.1
I gave it to my daughter and she fooled around with it a bit and now it will not load windows at all.
I have it back now.
I have all of the backup diskettes.
When I try to boot up it gets to the point of
.....loading MS Dos........
and then stops......... (No error messages, ...it just hangs there)

It does the exact same thing when I try to boot from the boot disk.

I also have a Packard Bell AMD K-6 with Windows 98. When I try to boot the
486 using my Windows 98 backup boot disk, I can get to a C prompt. At this point
I thought there might be a way to reformat my hard drive and re load everything from
by backup diskettes, but if my MS Dos is corrupted or something I don't know how to
fix it. Any suggestions?

[LarryCore]

It may be that the hard drive has a problem in the boot sector.

This would cause a DOS boot disk to lock up (it checks the C drive during boot) but let a Win98 boot disk get through.

Try your DOS boot disk on another machine to make sure it is ok. As long as it is, go ahead and use the 98 disk to wipe the C drive, then use your DOS disks to install.

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