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| Bernie 2001-08-27, 9:32 pm |
| My sister decided to move some files from the C over to a second hard drive. She happen to move over some system files and now the computer wont boot. The floppy wasn’t working so she accessed the BIOS and told the computer to boot from the CD-Rom first then the harddrive. I replaced the floppy drive, boot up and press Ctrl-Alt-Esc to access three boot options. CD-Rom, Harddrive and Removable Drives. The CD-Rom option isn’t working (I do have a Win95 disk inside). If I pop in a Win95 boot disk it reads the files and stays at the A: prompt. It will not let me switch over to the hard drive (only one has files to boot from). I just changed the BIOS settings back to read from the floppy first but I don’t think it would matter b/c the system files are still missing on the hardrive. Can anybody give me any pointers? | |
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| Try this...
Boot from win9x bootdisk (preferably 98) and then in the A:/> type in "sys c:"
That should transfer all system files to the c:/ If that doesn't work, I know a few other ways as well.
Good Luck
Azam | |
| Bernie 2001-09-05, 9:37 am |
| I tried a 98bootdisk, that didn't work. It's not recognizing the C drive at all. With the bootdisk I was able to access the CD-Rom and start the Win95 Cd but it states that it's missing the CD-Rom drivers. | |
| Bernie 2001-09-05, 9:39 am |
| it stated something(didn't write down word-word) to the effect of NTFS and I need to create a DOS parition. This is Win95 and I don't think she choose NTFS over FAT16. | |
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| It is very difficult to say how to solve this problem.
First, u don't know what kind of system file did she move.. (major problem)..
The easy way is to re-install OS again | |
| stefanw 2001-09-13, 5:22 am |
| try copying win98 boot disk to root of C:\ |
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