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Number   :  264
Date     :  2001-06-21
Author   :  Kan Yabumoto
Subject  :  Re: Monday - would not boot with 2 C drives in computer
Size(KB) :  1


Let me add to what Barry said.

In Win9x, when you see the Cloud, it is Microsoft's trick to
hide the underlying DOS activities. You can turn off the
Cloud's display and keep the DOS screen (sometimes it shows
other pertinent error message which users normally miss
because of the Cloud display). To do so, Go to the
editor (in DOS) and modify the MSDOS.SYS file (an ascii file
with hidden/readonly/system flags set so you need to run

ATTRIB -H -R -S C:\MSDOS.SYS

Inside MSDOS.SYS, set

logo=0 (to remove the logo display)

Just by setting the logo=0 you may see a bunch of error message
on the screen.

Also, inside MSDOS.SYS set

BootMenu=1
BootMenuDelay=10

This will give you the 10-second menu display where
you may choose a non-standard option such as
Step-by-step-confirmation, Safe-Mode, Command Prompt-Only, etc.

If you see only one-line MSDOS.SYS file, let me know you need
a much bigger MSDOS.SYS file for a system disk on a hard disk.

Also, the activation of BOOTLOG.TXT file may also help you
determine which device driver fails.

Kan Yabumoto
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At 2001-06-21 13:54, Barry wrote:

> >Never would it boot past the win98 screen with the clouds.
> >
>
>Just so you know, this is a very important piece of information
>which you left out. The answers would have been quite different.
>Getting "clouds" means the drive is good, hooked up, addressed
>properly, the boot has started, etc...
>
>Barry
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