windows 98 boot

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During boot i'm prompted with c:windows> and will stop. What would cause this?

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It reboots to the same spot.

"Mikhail Zhilin" wrote:

> On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 10:29:07 -0800, "samiam2592"
> <samiam2592@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> >During boot i'm prompted with c:windows> and will stop. What would cause this?
>
> What happens if you type here:
>
> win
>
> followed by Enter key?
>
> --
> Mikhail Zhilin
> http://www.aha.ru/~mwz
> Sorry, no technical support by e-mail.
> Please reply to the newsgroups only.
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>

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Sounds like msdos.sys to me. More than once I've run across an msdos.sys
that was full of gibberish until way at the bottom where the original was
still there. I figure scandisk is probably what corrupted it. Anyway, the
symptoms were the same as the OP's.

Mikhail Zhilin <mwz@x.REMOVEx.aha.ru> wrote in
news:f0n121pld02ntn3nevhkue4j29n6nui1kh@4ax.com:

> Try to remove autoexec.bat and config.sys -- rename them, so they can
> be analyzed later. Type at this point two lines followed by Enter key
> (wait for a system reaction after each one):
>
> ren c:\autoexec.bat autoexec.bad
> ren c:\config.sys config.bad
>
> Restart (Ctrl-Alt-Del) after that. If you'll come to the same point
> still -- restore Autoexec.bat and Config.sys:
>
> ren c:\autoexec.bad autoexec.bat
> ren c:\config.bad config.sys
>
> and type the third line:
>
> edit c:\msdos.sys
>
> Then take a pencil, write down its content (omitting ;xxxxxxx lines)
> and post it here.
>
> --
> Mikhail Zhilin
> http://www.aha.ru/~mwz
> Sorry, no technical support by e-mail.
> Please reply to the newsgroups only.
>======
> On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 12:07:02 -0800, "samiam2592"
><samiam2592@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
>>It reboots to the same spot.
>>
>>"Mikhail Zhilin" wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 10:29:07 -0800, "samiam2592"
>>> <samiam2592@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> >During boot i'm prompted with c:windows> and will stop. What would
>>> >cause this?
>>>
>>> What happens if you type here:
>>> win
>
>



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