[GLLUG] Win98SE Puzzler

[Chick Tower]

Well, to finally follow this up, I reinstalled the c: drive from my 
backup tonight.  It only took three hours to reinstall 1.24GB, so I'm 
not going to use that software again.  It was some drive backup program 
that came with my CD-burner, I think, so I'm not likely to use it again, 
anyway.  The restore floppy said the primary partition was an unknown 
format, so I had to format it again before the restore would execute, 
but it seems to work now.


                                Chick

On 09/23/2010 01:27 PM, Clay Dowling wrote:
> On 9/23/10 1:23 PM, Chick Tower wrote:
>> I found my Win98 boot floppy and gave it a go.  I could see d:, e:, and
>> f: (apps, data,&  games), but I couldn't see the c: drive.  I have a
>> backup of the drive, although I'm not sure I can access it without
>> having the third-party backup program I used installed.  If I can't
>> somehow repair the partition, I don't know if it's worth it to me to
>> reinstall Win98.
>
> Interestingly, I tried to boot up my windows box last night and ran into
> similar issues.  Windows partition is there, but the box can't be relied
> upon to boot windows properly.  Since I still have some hobby code
> written for Windows, I'll probably have to dig out media and reinstall.
>
> Clay