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windows 98 boot issuse

Postby witchy on Mon Jan 07, 2008 4:41 pm

windows 98 wont boot up. not even to safe mode. BSOD says "unmountable boot volume" any ideas on how to fix? not sure if we have any boot discs yet. I have a copy of ultimate boot disc i downloaded online. will this work? and if so is it self explanitory? do i just boot from this cd?
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Re: windows 98 boot issuse

Postby h3rb on Thu Jan 10, 2008 10:12 am

An error such as that usually means you are fuct. What the Win98 loader is telling you is that it can't find a volume to load the OS from. The boot partition of the drive obviously is correct in knowing that there should be an OS somewhere on the drive, but it can't find it. Sometimes using "chkdsk /r" from a win98 boot disk will fix the error but it's doubtful. Why oh why are you even bothering with a Win98 machine?!?!?!
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Re: windows 98 boot issuse

Postby witchy on Thu Jan 10, 2008 1:20 pm

umm we gonna have to change the avitar. its nice and all but i dont want to expain it to caleb. ty. it turnes out its xp home.
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Re: windows 98 boot issuse

Postby h3rb on Thu Jan 10, 2008 1:40 pm

awwww :( So I guess I can't put my other one on there that I wanted you to increase the size limit for :( But...but..I love boobies.
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Re: windows 98 boot issuse

Postby h3rb on Thu Jan 10, 2008 1:43 pm

There, I changed my avatar to Mila :) As far as it being XP Home. Just us an XP boot disk and go into the recovery console and run fdisk /r.
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Re: windows 98 boot issuse

Postby witchy on Thu Jan 10, 2008 2:16 pm

i might just give it a swift kick and call it good.
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Re: windows 98 boot issuse

Postby witchy on Thu Jan 10, 2008 2:33 pm

the truble started with an improper shut down. could it have been becasue they havent done an update sence 2002?
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Re: windows 98 boot issuse

Postby witchy on Thu Jan 10, 2008 4:01 pm

lol ok so after 24 hours or so of fighting that computer i went to hp web site and its a known issue. and doing the revovery thing and then windows updates fix it.
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