Operating system not found
A friend has an HP computer with Windows 98.
She is having trouble booting. First the HP logo screen comes up, I cannot see if the hard drive is detected. Then a strange repeating squeaking sound starts. There is not a fan sound. Then the message appears: Operating system not found.
We cannot hear the single beep after POST.
She has a HP supplied recovery CD.
I checked the BIOS and the drive type is set for AUTO on the Primary Master
I was thinking of booting with a Windows 98 floppy and she said she may be able to get one made at work. But then I thought we may need a Windows 98 floppy diskette made with the FAT32EBD.EXE program. That's in case she has a FAT32 file system. Otherwise we may get a "invalid drive specification" message if we try with a regular Windows 98 boot floppy and she has a FAT 32 system partition.
Does anyone have the FAT32EBD.EXE program, so I could make a Windows 98 boot floppy capable of accessing her hard drive?
Last edited by Robert M; March 16th, 2007 at 01:38 PM.
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