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Womble
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Last night I put my Win98Se CD in the drive to take a backup copy.
It auto-played and came up with its menu.
One of the options was to look at some movies to see the amazing graphic power of Win98, so just out of interest I decided to see what they looked like in XP.
When I clicked on the play movies button, I got a message box telling me to put the Windows 98 SE CD in the drive – which it already was.
Anyway, after unsuccessfully trying to do my backup, I powered down and went to bed.
I’ve just had a call from my daughter telling me that the computer won’t boot.
Says it can’t find NTLDR and to put a boot disk in A: !!!
Did Win98 do this and what’s the best way to recover ?
I haven’t created a set of XP boot disks, so I’m wondering whether I can boot directly off the XP CD.
Then, would a system restore fix it or should I try repair system files (wherever that is) ?
Thanks for any help.
Cheers Womble
It auto-played and came up with its menu.
One of the options was to look at some movies to see the amazing graphic power of Win98, so just out of interest I decided to see what they looked like in XP.
When I clicked on the play movies button, I got a message box telling me to put the Windows 98 SE CD in the drive – which it already was.
Anyway, after unsuccessfully trying to do my backup, I powered down and went to bed.
I’ve just had a call from my daughter telling me that the computer won’t boot.
Says it can’t find NTLDR and to put a boot disk in A: !!!
Did Win98 do this and what’s the best way to recover ?
I haven’t created a set of XP boot disks, so I’m wondering whether I can boot directly off the XP CD.
Then, would a system restore fix it or should I try repair system files (wherever that is) ?
Thanks for any help.
Cheers Womble