Re: Startup in DOS; Administrator Security
From: Mike (mjl000@hotmail.com.nospam)
Date: 02/14/03
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From: "Mike" <mjl000@hotmail.com.nospam> Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 12:02:27 GMT
What a quandry when changing from one OS to another can be for the
unexperienced. Having extra utilities can be a great help.
Whatever you do, don't install anything (including DOS or Windows 98) on your
old drive (now drive E:). If you install anything there you may never be able
to get some of your data back from the drive. You need a recovery utility that
works inside Windows 2000 (if you intend to use Windows 2000) for either FAT or
FAT32 formatted drives. An upgrade/newer version from Norton/Symantec should
work within Win2000 and work on FAT32 drives.
Older Norton Utilities which worked with Window 98 may not work with Windows
2000 (depending upon how old your Norton Utility version is). Windows 2000
does not use DOS but has a built-in DOS emulator which is very good. It may be
possible to recover the data using a DOS recover disk created from your Norton
Utility (for DOS). Run the Norton install for DOS recovery disks which should
work in Windows 2000 and then when you figure out how to change the BIOS to set
the A: drive to boot, then use that to recover data from your E: drive.
However, you may need another partition or drive to copy/recover data to from
the E: drive. If you have extra space on your C: drive, you can may be able to
create another partition on this drive with FAT or FAT32 formatting and then
recover from your E: drive to new FATx partition.
The DOS emulator is good, but you cannot install Win98 from inside Windows 2000.
You may be logging onto the PC using either Admin account, thus you see the
updates under that respective account.
If you don't want to use Windows 2000 (which is far superior to Windows 98) you
must find a way to change the BIOS so that you can FDISK /sys to the Windows
2000 drive from a floppy disk with a DOS version of FDISK (this kills Windows
2000), then partition and format the drive in FAT32. Or, if you have your Win
98 CD then use the Boot from CD option and install Windows 98 from the CD. If
the PC won't boot from CD (won't do it by trying or won't allow you to set the
settings) then contact the tech to see if he can help you.
"Neil Scott" <npscott1@excite.com> wrote in message
news:014301c2d2e0$60039530$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> I'm retired on Social Security. So, when my old computer
> crashed, a tech at a nearby university told me he'd give
> me a computer next time they upgrade, and throw the old
> one out.
>
> He was good to his word.
>
> He is on the computer as an administrator. So am I.
>
> I noticed the otherday that his file was last accessed on
> Feburary 8. But, the last time he was in my home, was to
> setup the computer, on January 28.
>
> Is he accessing the computer from his home?
>
> Finally, he installed my old hard drive, which had deleted
> information on it I need to retrieve.
>
> But, my Norton Unerase Wizard will work only on WIN98se.
>
> So, when I went to install WIN98se on the hardrive (e), it
> would not run under WIN2000. Said to reboot and go into a
> DOS startup.
>
> But...my START options only allow me to shutdown, or
> restart. And F8 only allows me to go into a SAFE Command
> Mode in WIN2000. Same problem, can't install WIN98se on
> the E: harddrive.
>
> I went into the BIOS, thinking I could select A: from
> which to boot. But, there is no such selection there.
>
> Is all this normal?
>
> This fellow has done me a great kindness, but it seems as
> if he has all the permissions, and I have none.
>
> Am I right?
>
> And, is there a way for me to boot into DOS so I can run
> WIN98 setup.exe and install it onto the 2nd (and old) hard
> drive (E:).
>
> Thanks,
>
> Neil
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