windows 98

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  1. kurple

    kurple Member

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    hi i have a friend who ha sa dell dimesion xps t600r computer and it wont boot to windows 98 but we dont have any disk with it, i just used a windows 98 boot disk i also put a windows 95 boot disk in and it read it but did nothing else,does anyone know how dell computers boot with i think the harddrive has been formatted because when i go to c prompt and type in dir it states that volume c has no label and it doesnt show any directaires can some one please help
     
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    does your friend have a restore/recovery cd??
     
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    no she didnt get any kind of disk with it
     
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    was it a used computer bought 2nd hand because if new, it would have had a cd or 2
     
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    i think who ever she got it from that it was gave to them also without any disk or cds
     
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    i was gonna suggest www.bootdisk.com, but not sure.. hmmm.. usually they hide the install stuff on a hidden partition or similar..
     
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