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win 98 won't start
To do this just hold down the F8 key after the system POSTs and you'll see a boot menu with this option. If it does boot in safe mode then something is loading on Recently Windows XP will not allow me to input my password and start the program. The blue screen appears and the box for user and password quickly

computer will not start up
If your computer will not start, you can run the Recovery Console from the Setup CD. See Related Topics for information on running the Recovery Console In Win98 MsConfig had an option to enable the "Boot Menu" with a configurable time out. When enabled every boot would display the "DOS" boot menu to let the

Help!! Computer freezes on startup and windows xp will not start!!
I'm not sure that I understand what you mean. Where the "boot-up happens" is determined by ntldr, it determines this by reading the information in the boot.ini file, it will determine the where the boot-up happens when you make your selection at the boot menu, or by using the default= information if you do not make

I can see both drives and files from Win98. Content-Type: text ...
The problem is that Windows 2000 will not start successfully unless I first start Windows 98, restart the computer, and then select Windows 2000 from the boot menu. Once in Windows 2000, if I need to restart the OS, again, I have to start Windows 98 and restart in order to get back into Windows 2000.

Windows Installer Service will not start... error 997: overlap
Previous message on Mar 4 2004 9:05 Previous subbject: Windows XP will not start past the disk check My XP computer will not continue to start up Windows, either after it does a disk check or if I pass on that option. I pushed the F8 key to try the boot menu options and none of them worked past the disk check!

Windows will not start
But though W2K's boot menu did contain linux in boot menu list, when I tried to choose it, I got a following error: "Windows 2000 could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: <windows 2000 root>\system32\ntoskrnl.exe. Please re-install a copy of the file above". (the file is actually present,

Can I boot of an XP System disk, nested in a logical volume
In ME I don't think you can start your system in DOS from the boot menu. You jumped ahead of me there, that's why i asked if the o/p had an o/s cd, but i've a feeling they might not, and that's exactly what i was going to say. Now i can do something you can't do on XP, i create another copy of Windows,

missing f8 boot option ?
As a result, the greek windows 2000 wrote a dual boot menu (in greek) to choose from which operating system to start from. Although greek windows were starting succesfully when selected from the menu, the english version of Windows XP would not start! I guess I had to install windows 2000 first on the small drive

How to Enable "F8-Boot Menu"
... microsoft public win98 disks general HIrt the computer and hold down the CTRL key....keep it down until the Windows 98 Startup menu (boot menu) appears. VXD is required to run windows file not in Path may need to reinstall windows. Do not have start up disk What must i do to start the computer.

Beos 5.0 will not start
You need to wait a few more seconds into the boot process and then tap the F8 key to get the boot menu in Windows. I'm not seeing that, when I hit f8 at start up it brings me to a screen that asks me to choose a boot device? so i choose a device then keep hitting f8 then get to a screen that has 4 start up

Newbie install problem
I added to the boot.ini file these lines: multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(i)\WINNT "Windows 2000" multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\Windows "Windows 98", then I get the boot menu. When I click on the "Windows 2000", it works properly, but with "Windows 98", I got an error message: "Windows could not start

Peculiar Windows 2000 Start Up Problem
The Safe Mode is for troubleshooting only and can be invoked from the Boot Menu. It will start automatically if Windows can not start into the Normal Mode. The MS-DOS Mode is for running legacy MS-DOS applications, which can not run from within Windows 9x at all. You can start this either with booting from the

Dual boot is not working and I cannot remove a failed setup prompt
Adam Vujic [MVP] x-avu...@msn.com microsoft public win95 shellui Hi Jan, To force the boot menu to display on startup, edit your msdos.sys file with Notepad and It wil not start so I want to start in save mode. The computer does not react on pressing F8 (or F5) so I think someone played with the msdos.sys file.

Help! Windowd ME Will not Start Up after Windows Update
If Windows will not start normally, try to boot the computer in Safe Mode. Just after the system beep when powering on the computer, press the F8 key to display the boot menu. Select to boot into Safe Mode. Once the computer boots into safe mode, open the Network Control Panel, write down the names of the different

XP startup problem; won't start
I do not get a boot menu, now that Vista is up and running showing " Older Version of Windows", and " Microsoft Vista" to choose from. .... If worst comes to worst, use VistaBootPro on your Vista drive to create a start menu. Vista boot Pro can be found http://www.vistabootpro.org/ -- Lance Frca {497083/1008563}

Dos Start only
That's OK, since lilo can boot both windows and linux, but youy need to add a boot menu to lilo and choose which of linux or windows you want to boot! See numerous HOWTOs. The lilo HOWTO springs to mind. So does the Win+Lin Howto. by default. But I could not start Windows anymore. I did not know how to set it back

Windows XP Won't load in My New Winbook Z1/Missing File
BootMenu=<Boolean> Default: 0 Purpose: A setting of 1 enables the Startup menu. If this setting is 0, then you must press the F8 key when "Starting Windows If you delete the Msdos.sys file your computer will not start. The following statement, followed by a series of "X"s, appears in the Msdos.sys file: ;The

Linux & Win2K dual booting
Start the computer, when the Boot Menu appears at startup, press F8. (Or keep pressing F8 key until the Windows Startup menu appears.) 2. I have no remote storage, and a few removable storage devices, but their configuration has not changed since the last time ntbackup worked. Thanks. Roy.

Help wth Win2000/WinNT/WIn98 multiboot?
But Windows 2000 could not start! Windows 2000 just stopped responding in the driver loading phase (W2000 logo on screen). The only way to restart Window 2000 was to turn off the computer and select "Last good known configuration" from the boot menu (F8). It was even impossible to start Windows 2000 in safe mode

Windows 98 will not start.
If Windows NT is installed on a logical drive in an extended partition, after the BOOT MENU choice and NTDETECT runs, this error message will appear: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ OS Loader 4.0 Boot record Signature AA55 Not Found, xxyy Found. Windows NT could not start