Win98 won't boot, possible file missing from boot info?

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I have a pentium 233mxx packard bell pc on which I just changed the hard drive from a 4gb to 30gb, I had the 30gb drive on another computer that already had win98. When I switched the drive I kept getting two prompts at bootup that said I needed to install the drivers for a modem and a sound card which weren't even installed on the system any more. I tried to get rid of the prompts but I think I may have deleted a main file. Now when I turn my pc on it goes to boot by saying pentium 233mxx, then it starts detecting the drives. It detects it and then goes through ez-bios to start up, It gets to the windows startup screen with the clouds and scrolling progress bar on the bottom. The bar goes by a few times and then it stops for a minute or so, then the computer goes to a black screen with _ on it in the top left corner. It doesn't go any further unless in safe mode. I have a Win98 cd but I can't get it to load the cd from startup. What can I do? Thx For the help

 

Hi and welcome, can you tap the F 8 key upon booting and get a menu and choose safe mode?

What did you delete and from where?

 

I got it to fully boot before i deleted the files. The problem was when windows started up it gave me two new hardware found prompts. I tried to get rid of them but I had no success. After I deleted some of the files that I thought had just been added that day when I restarted the computer it won't fully boot unless in safe mode. When im in safe mode I can't get my cd to work and I don't know what else to do.

 

When you are in safe mode, try going to device manager and delete the hardware items that don't belong.