No OS Found! (W98)

[tamaraw]

hello, my niece recently installed Win 98 onto her pc, things went well, then recently that "no os found" came up over a black background. so i tried many reboots, as well as complete power switch offs, and i'd say 1 in 30 attempts worked. it's so tiring coz she running on only 64 Mb ram, and takes forever. i feel so useless coz i'm a duh! with pc's and the poor girl needs the Net for her school projects. can anyone please guide us out of the darkness?

[BertImmenschuh]

The amount of RAM at the beginning of the problem is immaterial.

Sounds more like the hard drive is failing.

Can you boot to a Win98 boot/startup disk? If so, at the A: prompt you might try the command sys c:. That should at least get the hard drive bootable.

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[auntieflorrie]

check there's no floppy inserted.

[tamaraw]

thanks BertImmenschuh, will suggest that to my niece when i speak to her again, and no there's no floppy in the cpu auntieflorrie, thanks so much to the both of you for your help.

[BertImmenschuh]

You're welcome.

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