Win98 not loading

[dansleeth]

Hi my brother has Win98, P3 860Mh 256SDRAM etc.. After installing a copy of Office 2000, the installation needed various files to "retry" in order to install them, it then said restart and so we did, as desktop came up, it done some installation/configure stuff and said that some file could not install. We went on without office being installed and had to shut down the PC, on next boot, we had to scandisc and it had a bad cluster, as it got too desktop it went to a DOs screen with a "_" flashing and nothing could be done (not even CTrl-Alt-Del) so we rebooted again and gave us the option for safemode, we did and it got to desktop background and nothing else (no start menu or icons) we pressed the 'window' key (next to Ctrl) andit said kernel preformed ilegall op and will terminate. we then decided to reeboot (on task manager no programmes had loaded). now we are stuck with out a PC (there are files we can not delete on that pc) we have another, is there a way to help, plz plz plz plz

 

[Guest_imported]

i think there's a problem with installing office2k on the first edition of win98. i recently tried to install it on my friend's pc for him n he also had win98 1st ed. n it screwed up. i got errors and when it got to the desktop background it was just blank. nothing could reset it but hv to turn it off.

my suggestion is to upgrade to win98se (2nd edition) then u can install office2k cos i've got that n there's no problems.

as far as recovering ur old and important files ur gonna hv to use another computer. rip out the hard drive and connect it to another pc then just copy the files over and the format ur bugged hard drive. once u've reinstalled ur OS (operating system) then put ur hard drive back into the one u copied ur precious files into and copy them back. stick the hdd back into ur computer and voila. it may seem a bit confusing wat i just sed but just read it carefully haha.

if u not sure how to rip open ur computer and stuff get someone who knows how to do it

hope this helps