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Boot problems
Name: Parul Jain Date: October 3, 2002 at 12:25:14 Pacific OS: Win 98 CPU/Ram: Pentium II 30 GB
Comment:
I had to change my harddisk when it crashed. now that I have changed it, and loaded windows on it, when I start the computer, it still goes to the DOS mode (ie C Prompt) and then from there, I have to start the windows manually. What could be wrong with this ?
Name: jan Date: October 3, 2002 at 12:37:51 Pacific
Reply:
If you have Tweakui go to the Boot tab and select start GUI automatically. It will modify msdos.sys so windows will start.
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Response Number 2
Name: DAVEINCAPS Date: October 3, 2002 at 20:48:03 Pacific
Reply:
Or at the dos prompt type:
edit c:\msdos.sys
and return. When it opens, scroll down to
BootGUI=0
and change it to
BootGUI=1
Then save and exit. If it's already set to 1 the problem is elsewhere.
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Response Number 3
Name: spamtrap Date: October 3, 2002 at 20:56:38 Pacific
Reply:
add 'win' at the end of your autoexec.bat if the above fails. I also believe that having the following line in config.sys will stop windows loading.. SHELL=C:\COMMAND.COM C:\ /E:1024 /P /F .. or something similar but you would have had to have put that there in the first place.
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