windows98se boot problems. Archived from groups: microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion () i have a toshiba sattelite490cdt with win98se preinstalled(no boot disc) and am having a problem with the boot process when i start up the machine i only get as far...

the problem that every then and when, the boot process hangs right after the POST screen, displaying only a forever blinking underscore, the moment where it would go into the bios if I you hit the del key. It happens whether I want to go into the bios, or boot...

ok as it should. If you have a problem booting use the XP cd to boot with, choose the repair mbr option. Once you have XP booting on it's own, disconnect the XP drive, use the W7 DVD to boot in and start the install process, you can either choose to repair...

the problem. It turns out that XP stopped booting after less than a month. GRUB works fine, and I can boot into CentOS without problem. When I try to boot into XP, it shows the "rootnoverify" and "chainloader" lines on the screen, and then nothing more....

cannot boot. Does anyone know the cause of the problem and/or what I should try next? You may have a faulty hard drive , but things to check first is that the HDD is set in BIOS to be the first boot device If it is then try setting BIOS to failsafe defaults...

Failure of Windows XP to boot up. I am having problems with booting up XP.... the system runs up to "safe mode etc options" and no matter which choice is selected the boot up process begins again and continues to cycle through this procedure.... never starting.......

Open My Computer -Select Tools => Folder Options -Select the View tab -Add a check to "Launch folder windows in a separate process" All this does is make your explorer windows run as a separate process, normally they are run as the same process as the taskbar....

as before during restart boot process. Okay, could be an intermittent drive problem. Have a cloned copy of this entire hard drive on another identical make/model hard drive. Tried that. Same two problems I noted continued to occur. Checked seating of...

desktop computer (not some old steamer with LBA problems) and booted off a DOS diskette (I also tried to get the system to see both discs by booting off a Partition Commander floppy and copy an entire drive that way) The desktop saw the 12 gig drive without...

Message during boot. Hi, I have a dual boot with Vista and XP. Everything is working fine but i have a message before the selection of the OS. It doesn't cause any problem for me to boot any of the OS but it slow a little bit the boot process and it doesnt...