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Need command to boot up windows 98

Does anyone know the exact command for booting up windows 98 in the command promp mode. I purchased a hard drive which had windows 98 on it and when i start mylaptop it boots pass the start up files directly to command promp. I need the command to start the boot process. The command start looks like this; c:\>



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Go to your windows directory (normaly it's c:\windows)

CD windows [enter]

and start Windows

WIN [enter]

or

WIN.COM [enter]

 

 


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Thank you for devoting your time to my problem. It seems that the drive i purchased is notidenticle to the drive originally installed. I will return thedrive and purchase the correct model that is completely formatted. Thank you, again, guardianangel


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