Can you start win98 from a DOS prompt?

[gargoyle47]

Can you start win98 from a DOS prompt?

If you can how do you do it?
I am switching harddrives in out of the machine. It is a dual boot with win98 / linux. Since it is dual boot the other part of the start is on the linux drive which has been temporary removed. So it give me a grub error.

What is the name of the file that starts win98?




Never Say Never (Romeo Void)
SeeYa
#1 Homebuilt Iwill KK266plus-r 1.0Ghz AMD Win98Se, DVD-rom, LG-cdwriter.
# Acer Aspire 300Hz, Hp-Writer, daul boot Win98SE/ Fedora Core 2

 

[micker377]

Try: Win (You may have to "change directories" [CD] to Windows first).

If in Windows (and you go to a DOS prompt), type EXIT to return to Windows.

 

[gargoyle47]

Hi micker377,

Well I it tryed and it kind of worked.
It started to load but then gave me an error.
VFAT Device Initalization Failed

System halted

So I guess their is more to it then what you suggested.
Thanks for trying.

Never Say Never (Romeo Void)
SeeYa
#1 Homebuilt Iwill KK266plus-r 1.0Ghz AMD Win98Se, DVD-rom, LG-cdwriter.
# Acer Aspire 300Hz, Hp-Writer, daul boot Win98SE/ Fedora Core 2

 

[micker377]

The "Win" command is used after the autoexec.bat and config.sys is loaded. "Vfat" may be an error from an anti-virus program not loaded from "Win.ini". I know you get that error when Norton AV is bad.

 

[Bugzs]

I don't know if this will help you or not, but it's worth a

try.

When I do a C: Drive restoration from the latest Ghost

Image I have on my Hard Drive, I put these 5 lines at the

end of the Restore Batch file and my computer boots to my

desktop in about 50 seconds after the Image gets restored.

I cannot recall WHERE I found this, but it's been working

for me everytime for the past 5 years, with no problems.

set comspec=c:\command.com
c:
cd\
set winbootdir=c:\windows
c:\windows\win.com


Good luck and let the board know how it worked out for you.

Ben