win 98 boot up

[ratt192]

My IBM 600 thinkpad with Win 98 won't load windows.
On boot-up it gets the win 98 screen, then shows it loading user policy then a quick appearence of a command prompt window. It then goes to a solid screen and hangs
It was running fine up until the last time I shut down. It hung and I had to use the power button to turn it off

 

[jrbarnett]

Try and get into safe mode or the command prompt to run scandisk over the hard drive and correct any errors.

John

 

[TekTippy4U]

try holding the CTRL key on bootup and wait for win98 start menu and choose "command prompt only" and type
SCANREG /RESTORE
since it happened recently..
follow the prompts to restore a "Started" version that has a date Previous to when the problems occur...
mind you, you only have 5 days, if that, to do this

TT4U

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