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Windows Forum / Windows 98 / General Topics / May 2004Can't start up my PC
I'm unable to start up my PC. I think my harddrive is full (C:\), and it's asking me to make space. How do I do that if I can't start it up. It won't go into Safe Mode. The Windows boot disk does not work When I try to boot up it stops at A:\ I've tried scandisk, and it asks me to free some space to continue after approx.. 2 minutes. The system is Windows 98 which is a upgrade from windows95 Please help! Regards, Iain Boot to the floppy... at the a: prompt type in del c:\windows\temp\*.* Keep your fingers crossed that there is enough stuff there to delete. If that does not work you will need to learn a few more ms-dos commands and look for something else to delete. Then run scandisk -s to perform a surface scan of your hard disk. If that does not work drive down to the local computer store and buy the cheapest hard drive you can buy - no doubt it will be 10 times larger than what you have. Then simply use the supplied utilities to copy your entire old hard drive contents to the new one > I'm unable to start up my PC. I think my harddrive is > full (C:\), and it's asking me to make space. [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > Regards, > Iain > I'm unable to start up my PC. I think my harddrive is > full (C:\), and it's asking me to make space. > How do I do that if I can't start it up. > It won't go into Safe Mode. Does booting to the command line (F8) work ?  SignatureAndreas >-----Original Message----- >> I'm unable to start up my PC. I think my harddrive is [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > >Does booting to the command line (F8) work ? >I'm unable to start up my PC. I think my harddrive is >full (C:\), and it's asking me to make space. >How do I do that if I can't start it up. >It won't go into Safe Mode. >The Windows boot disk does not work >When I try to boot up it stops at A:\ That's exactly what a boot disk does! It has a copy of DOS on it, that is loaded and run and the result is the A:\> prompt. From here you can examine your hard drive, look at and edit files on it (there's an "edit" command on the floppy). SignatureTim Slattery MS MVP(DTS) Slattery_T@bls.gov |
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