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Help me fix my computer

jd83 · 2006-12-19 17:55:47

I have a computer with windows 98 on but every time i turn it on it starts in ms dos, ive tried everything to get into windows but it wont work and i dont have a windows cd if anyone could help i would be grateful thanks

19-12-2006 5:55pm

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jd83

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I have a computer with windows 98 on but every time i turn it on it starts in ms dos, ive tried everything to get into windows but it wont work and i dont have a windows cd if anyone could help i would be grateful
thanks

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#2 19-12-2006 6:00pm

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You sure windows will actually work??

'win.exe' used to work back in the day, try that. You may need to be in the C:\Windows directory for it to work, if not ou need the CD.

if it does edit your auteoexec.bat file to include that command at the end.

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#3 19-12-2006 8:47pm

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Is there a boot disk in the floppy drive?

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#4 19-12-2006 8:47pm

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Type win at a dos prompt

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#5 21-12-2006 2:21pm

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thanks for all ur help but it didnt work, it said himem.sys is missing so i tried making a bootdisk and that didnt work either

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#6 21-12-2006 2:46pm

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I think you need to get the Windows 98 CD, solution here. Maybe a bootdisk will work also, with the command;

copy himem.sys c:\

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