WIN 98 Safe Mode Help

[dmarkie13827]

Hello;
I am attempting to reload my old win98 2e OS due to a ongoing boot problem that has been occuring for some time now. Currently my pc will only start up in safe mode which there are various options such as -Safe Mode, Safe Mode w/Network Support, and a few others.....

Here's my problem. I have another PC on my home LAN which i would like to back up my data files to before wiping out my hard drive with the reinstall of the 98 OS. However, in Safe Mode my win 98 pc has no network connectivity so i can not access the hard drive (which i have previously been able to do under normal operations). I'm sure i need to load certain drivers, etc or kind of manually start the network devices in the safe mode in order to make the connection.....I'm just not sure how to go about this.

Thanks for your help.

DaveM

[Steve R Jones]

Might want to consider poping the drive out and slaving it to another pc and grab the files that way.

[dmarkie13827]

thanks steve....i was hoping for a less intrusive option.....I'm not too good with the removing hardware, etc. So there is no way to use my current lan connection since i do have a lot of win98 functionality while in safemode...just min drivers and systems running due to being turned off by the safemode....

davem

[electric]

with a win 98 start up floppy disc in " A " drive boot computer.
when in dos change drive letter to C:
type " exit " than press enter

should get you into windows

[ankit_geek]

Instead of regular F8 key to get into the safe mode options, at the time of startup keep pressing F6 key to get into the 98 "safe mode with network" where u can do all kinds of networking in safe mode.