Win98 not booting up

Hi all,

this is a great forum--very helpful people!

I will be helping a friend with his Win98 SE machine with 64 MB ram --he's getting ready to donate this machine and reformatted the hard drive, and reinstalled Win98 SE. The problem is that he cannot successfully boot off the hard drive; he gets as far as the Win98 splash screen and then the system shuts down. He tried booting off a floppy, but was not successful---he said that the system reassigns drive letters(??). My apologies for not having more accurate information to post as I have not had access to the machine yet.

I plan to look at the machine tomorrow and would appreciate any suggestions of where and how to start the troubleshooting process.

Mahalo,
Kaneohe

 

Hi,

How many partitions are on the system? Is there a second drive?

 

Hi Columbo,

It is my understanding that there is only one hard drive with a single partition. I'll confirm this tomorrow.

Aloha
Kaneohe

 

When he says that it's re-assigning drives, is he referring to when he boots with a boot disk.....this would happen as a ram drive is created and the cdrom drive will get pushed one drive letter ahead.