[Ham-Computers] Info on Win 98

[Jim Hill]

Does your friend still have his Win 95 install CD?  If so, maybe you 
could make a boot floppy on another computer, boot from the floppy, 
go to the CD drive...... I'm assuming the computer still checks the 
floppy when booting.
Jim



At 07:38 PM 6/2/2009, you wrote:
>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.
>
>Thanks,
>Brian
>
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