re: Can not boot up in standard mode Saturday, January 10, 2009 at 1:58 pm Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Keith Stanier (1248 messages posted) rob wrote: |Microsoft windows 98 start up menu. |The options there were: |1 Normal |2 Logged (\bootlog.txt) |3 safe mode |4 safe mode with network support |5 step by step confirmation |6 Command prompt only |7 safe mode command prompt |I selected command prompt and at the C prompt I typed A: then enter. |I received "general failure reading drive A" |Abort, Retry,Fail" |I typed in A and recieved "the current drive is no longer available." So you have a boot disk/startup disk just to keep gewg happy but the floppy drive isn't available? Right go back into the BIOS/CMOS just to keep gewg happy and see if it shows a floppy in the setup and its the right size. If it does then it looks like your floppy drive is another problem. Buy a new drive they are quite cheap, I bought one a few weeks ago. Written in response to: re: Can not boot up in standard mode (rob: Saturday, January 10, 2009 at 1:33 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Can not boot up in standard mode (rob: Sun, Dec 28, 2008, 2:05 pm) re: Can not boot up in standard mode -- black screen, blinking cursor (gewg_: Sun, Dec 28, 2008, 3:20 pm) re: Can not boot up in standard mode -- black screen, blinking cursor (rob: Mon, Dec 29, 2008, 3:19 pm) re: Can not boot up in standard mode -- black screen, blinking cursor (gewg_: Mon, Dec 29, 2008, 5:41 pm) re: Can not boot up in standard mode -- black screen, blinking cursor (rob: Tue, Dec 30, 2008, 12:09 pm) re: Can not boot up in standard mode -- black screen, blinking cursor (rob: Tue, Dec 30, 2008, 1:57 pm) re: Can not boot up in standard mode -- black screen, blinking cursor (gewg_: Tue, Dec 30, 2008, 4:11 pm) re: Can not boot up in standard mode -- black screen, blinking cursor (rob: Fri, Jan 9, 2009, 12:30 pm) re: Can not boot up in standard mode (Keith Stanier: Tue, Dec 30, 2008, 5:10 am) re: Can not boot up in standard mode (rob: Tue, Dec 30, 2008, 12:20 pm) re: Can not boot up in standard mode (rob: Tue, Dec 30, 2008, 12:23 pm) re: Can not boot up in standard mode (rob: Tue, Dec 30, 2008, 12:31 pm) re: Can not boot up in standard mode (Keith Stanier: Tue, Dec 30, 2008, 12:54 pm) re: Can not boot up in standard mode (rob: Tue, Dec 30, 2008, 1:51 pm) re: Can not boot up in standard mode (rob: Tue, Dec 30, 2008, 1:33 pm) re: Can not boot up in standard mode (Keith Stanier: Wed, Dec 31, 2008, 4:05 am) re: Can not boot up in standard mode (rob: Fri, Jan 9, 2009, 12:33 pm) re: Can not boot up in standard mode (rob: Fri, Jan 9, 2009, 2:07 pm) re: Can not boot up in standard mode (Keith Stanier: Sat, Jan 10, 2009, 2:06 am) re: Can not boot up in standard mode (gewg_: Sat, Jan 10, 2009, 12:08 pm) re: Can not boot up in standard mode (rob: Sat, Jan 10, 2009, 1:52 pm) re: Can not boot up in standard mode (gewg_: Sat, Jan 10, 2009, 3:22 pm) re: Can not boot up in standard mode (rob: Sat, Jan 10, 2009, 1:33 pm) re: Can not boot up in standard mode (gewg_: Sat, Jan 10, 2009, 1:52 pm) re: Can not boot up in standard mode (Keith Stanier: Sat, Jan 10, 2009, 1:58 pm) re: Can not boot up in standard mode (rob: Sun, Jan 4, 2009, 3:36 pm) re: Can not boot up in standard mode (rob: Fri, Jan 9, 2009, 3:32 pm) re: Can not boot up in standard mode (rob: Sun, Jan 11, 2009, 11:03 am) Got Windoze re-installed (sorta); driver problems now (gewg_: Sun, Jan 11, 2009, 1:39 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum