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annie - 24 Jul 2005 05:01 GMT

A friend has this old pc with win 98. It will only boot with the win 98
cd in the rom.
I tried every combination of boot sequence in the bios, the only 2 that
will get the thing going is c, cd rom or cd rom , c. A menu will then
come up asking to boot from hard drive or cd rom.
I choose hard drive and it boots ok.
Why wont it boot from c drive?

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Lil' Dave - 24 Jul 2005 12:33 GMT

If its booting from the hard drive, it is booting from the "c:" drive.

> A friend has this old pc with win 98. It will only boot with the win 98
> cd in the rom.
[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]
> I choose hard drive and it boots ok.
> Why wont it boot from c drive?

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glee - 24 Jul 2005 16:05 GMT

What happens when you try to boot *without* the CD in the drive? Please provide
complete exact error messages.

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> A friend has this old pc with win 98. It will only boot with the win 98
> cd in the rom.
[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]
> I choose hard drive and it boots ok.
> Why wont it boot from c drive?

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