Using 98 To Get To Dos - No Drives Found Aborting Installation
Mar 6, 2007
Computer has password, cant get in. I was going to just format the thing by booting up in 98 Boot from CD Rom Start Windows 98 Setup from Cd-rom Then starts checks PROBLEM When 98 starts its checks, the very first one says "No drives found, aborting installation." It throws me to a dos prompt A:> The only drive it sees is A. Now what I would normally do, is abort the installation of 98, it throws me to a dos. I put in my pcmagic cd in and execute. It sees only A: and B: but when I try to go to B: I get the "Not ready reading drive B" Abort, Retry, Fail. Basically I need to get to a dos prompt so I can execute pcmagic to format the drive
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