Windows 98 Serious Boot Problem

[Allymen]

The boot sequence gets as far as DMI Pool Allocation, I then get the C:\ prompt and a message saying run c:\windows\command.com - I cannot get anything from the c:\ and cannot use any DOS commands.

Is this a hard disk failure or virus problem?

 

[Chadly01]

Can you give us an idea of anything you may have been doing on or to the computer before this happened?

 

[Allymen]

I recently installed a drawing package. Also since installing and external Zip drive many months ago, the pc would boot into safe mode quite often

 

[Guest_imported]

Reinstall everything.

 

[Mulga]

Sounds like one or more of your boot files or your master boot record are corrupted. Try booting from a bootable floppy made with Win 98 and containing the fdisk program and type fdisk /mbr and hit enter. If this does not work try typing sys c: and hit enter at the A:\ prompt.
Best of luck