i used the harddrive as a slave. it seemed to work fine, but after a while, it forze and when i rebooted, windows no longer wants to load. i am running on windows 98 can anyone help me out?
2006-09-26 14:43:08 · 5 answers · asked by whatever 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
wheni rebooted, it began detecting the harddrive and all that. then the windows screen came up, but wouldnt load. the message said, windows did not load successful on the previous attempt. something like that. i think u are right about the conflict. what can i do?
2006-09-26 14:52:43 · update #1
Can you give some more info, such as error messages and what you see on-screen when you attempt to boot your computer?
If your old OS is still on the slave drive, it may be causing a conflict of some sort.
2006-09-26 14:48:00 · answer #1 · answered by Goffik 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the hard drive you took out of the other pc had an OS on it then it also had a secondary system.ini file. When you reboot your computer the system.ini file loads the settings for you desktop. If you were working with windows xp it wouldn't have been a problem but in 98 the duplicate file is put in you're temp folder on the slave drive. If you deleted it by mistake, if the computer crashed, or was shut down in-properly the file would have been deleted. This would then cause your OS to fail to load. You can repair the OS and it SHOULD fix the problem, however with 98 you might be forced to completely reinstall the OS.
2006-09-26 18:50:17 · answer #2 · answered by Austin A 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a few answers could be correct. the most common one is overlapping OSs, make sure you are trying to boot from the master. If that does not help, take out the slave and do a normal boot. If that doesn't work, of course, take out the ram (that is the least likely problem, but it could happen). It doesn't seem to be an OS conflict issue, so it should work if you unplug the new HD. That's as far as i can help you without going to your house and looking at it.
2006-09-26 14:49:45 · answer #3 · answered by Mitch G 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
+Boot your computer (if it is on, reboot).
+Rapidly press F8 (aka: f8,f8,f8...) untill a grey menu pops up on the black screen
+Select Last Known Good mode from the boot menu
+If that works try shutting down and restarting and see if problem occurs, if not try removing the second hard drive.
+Then reboot and get into the setup (cmos) usually F2 Delete or ESC
+Find your boot device priority and verify that your current hard disk is set as the highest priority slot.
2006-09-26 14:52:44 · answer #4 · answered by romeohsdrumline 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-11-24 21:24:35 · answer #5 · answered by akien 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋