[Ham-Computers] Info on Win 98

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Brian,

I never used 98 or 95, having gone from 3.11 to NT.  But if there is 
anything on the machine that your friend needs to get off, I strongly suggest 
making a boot CD on another machine and booting from that.  Or install another 
bootable drive as Drive 0 Master and boot from that  You might have to make 
adjustments to the boot sequence in CMOS Setup (bios) first.  Save whatever 
he wants to save by whatever means is available or convenient.  Then 
reinstall from scratch whatever OS he wants to run.  With as many problems as he 
appears to have, it's infinitely safer to just save what needs to be saved 
while you can and start over.

Martin,

Your comment was rude, crude, terminally unfriendly and socially 
unacceptable, regadless of which of several current OS's you consider "modern".

In a message dated 6/2/2009 9:43:55 PM Central Daylight Time, 
martinsglazer at yahoo.com writes: 
> Toss it into the dumpster and get a modern operating system
> 
> --- On Tue, 6/2/09, Brian K. Gaskamp <ka5bkg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
> >From: Brian K. Gaskamp <ka5bkg at sbcglobal.net>
> >Subject: [Ham-Computers] Info on Win 98
> >To: ham-computers at mailman.qth.net
> >Date: Tuesday, June 2, 2009, 7:38 PM
> >I'm trying to help a friend out that
> >messed up there desktop computer big 
> >time.
> >If you go into bios onto the system there a are options for
> >booting the 
> >system up.
> >CD-ROM
> >HD
> >Floppy Drive
> >
> >But they are not where you can choose how to boot the
> >system up.
> >
> >I'm also getting a message saying, "Invalid system disk"
> >
> >I was reading about that message and looks like the system
> >might have a 
> >virus and my freind said he used to have Win XP on the
> >laptop.
> >
> >Any suggestions on what to do to get the system started
> >again, if its even 
> >possible.
> 

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