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A couple of days ago a thunder storm was headed my direction. I shutdown and unplugged everything like I always do and when the storm was over I hooked everything back up and restarted my computer.Now before it will load windows I get a win 98 startup screen asking me if I want to go into safe mode, command prompt etc. If I choose #1, "Normal Mode" it will go ahead and load windows. I've run scandisk & scanreg and it didn't help.

I have a pentium III-500, 128 M ram, running win 98 se.

Thanks for any help.

Jim

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hewittg

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Open [explorer][folder options][view]<toggle><show all files>[ok].
You should still be in explorer, highlight c:\, in left pane right click on 'msdos.sys', [properties][uncheck read only [apply][close]. Right click on 'msdos.sys' [open with]<notepad>

Under [Options]

BootMenu=0 (value of 1 loads boot menu you are seeing every time you boot up).

save, exit and reboot.

Repeat process to make msdos.sys read only again.

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hewittq

Thanks. Your suggestion worked.

Two more things though. How did it get that way & on the general tab, selective startup is checked instead of normal startup? It's working like it always did now, but I was just wondering.

Thanks again.

Jim

hewittg

Jim,
I cannot explain why it did it. I had that happen once on one of the pc's I maintain and could never explain why. The selective startup is the default. If it is working fine I would leave it alone.
Glad you are up and running.

Glenn