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October 22nd, 2004 00:00
MS DOS prompt coming up on task bar
I don't know if I'm posting this to the right board, but lately when I reboot and all the programs are coming onto the desk top and the task bar, I get the MS Dos prompt. If I click on this while it is there I get to the blank DOS screen. This never happened before today. Is it something I have to reset or is it trying to tell me something?
Also before this started I received an error that the operating system was not found. Not sure if these started coincidentally or if they go together. After receiving this message about the operating system, I turned PC off and back on and booted fine.
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Paranoid_Androi
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November 17th, 2004 21:00
jeaniemws
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November 17th, 2004 21:00
Thanks.
My PC hasn't been running as smoothly as it should, so today after a WordPerfect crash when it rebooted it ran through this whole ScanDisc looking for a bad sector. After it went through the whole thing it found a directory error and some bad clusters and when it rebooted to Windows the MS Dos did not come up.
So funny that I should get your reply tonight. Now I'm looking for a good backup software for my hard drive just in case. I have all my business documents and documents I create as I operate a transcription service and I would like to copy everything. Do you know how the Disc Backup on Windows 98 compares to some of the software you can buy. I was thinking also of maybe just copying to an external hard drive.
Jeanie
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November 18th, 2004 14:00
I think its better to just burn your files to a disk or as what you said, copy it to an external drive so that it would be easier to transfer to a diff. computer in case it has a diff. operating system.
Also, for software issues you could also check your registry.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows98/usingwindows/maintaining/tips/advanced/Registry.asp