boot disk

windows 98 home edition was on this lap top and a relative tried to put windows x p  and after the 34 minutes the screen goes black. They want  to go back go back to windows  98 back. I was told to use  a boot disk. Once it boots up the a promt comes up what to I put in the command prompt.

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At the A: prompt type D: and hit Enter...
Then at the D: prompt type in Setup and hit Enter...

it says the diagnostic tools were successfuly loaded to drive D.When the prompt  comes up(  A:/>)  when I put in the D says bad command or file name.

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OK

This is a bootdisk that uses a RAMdrive.

You'll have to try each letter after D: until you find the CDROM drive but if my memory serves me correctly it is K:

Sorry...been awhile.

don't apologize I appreciate the help. we call get busy .Now I tried all the letters the bad command or file name  comes up . I made sure that CD is the first in the boot order. I can put the c::  scandisk  and the error message c:\windows\system32\config\system.log files is being misreported
c:\windows\setupact.log file.

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When you try each drive letter if it switches to that drive type in dir /p and hit Enter...
This will show the contents of each drive....you should be able to recognise the Windows CD when you get to it...
Once you have the correct drive type setup and hit Enter and the install will start.

sorry for all the time you are spending on this .    D: |>dir/p comes up with voume in drive D is Ms=ramdrive and gives me the directory of d:\. volume e is win98 then gives me the directory of E:\ I do not recongines window cd. only e and d show anything.

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Did you try K: ? ?

volume e is win98

That's probably the win98 CD...

K nothing invalid drive specification.only d and e . yes colume in drive e is win98.after it list all the sys bat cab exe files  says press any key to continue
then it goes back to the command prompt E:\> when I type setup it comes up bad command or file name.

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Where is this CD from ? ?

I can't remember but one of the ones from the internet .Maybe bootdisk . maybe I am not sure it has been several  days since I did this.Do you know one that is better.

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I meant the Windows CD...is it from MS with shiny holograms and says MS all over it or is it a burned copy ? ?

the xp home edition that he tried to installed was from gateway operating system windows xp-home editon it boots up to windows xp and ask you to insert the cd disk and I have the holograms upgrade and tried that one and it goes to 34 minutes goes black. They just want to go back to windows98 so I     download a boot disk for windows 98.

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A Win98 bootdisk will not get them back to Win98...
Do they have a Win98 CD ? ?

  yes   I have a windows 98 . I just tried to install and after 22 minutes  77% file copy it gives me suewin an error occured . I choose to ingnore and show application error caused in general protection fault in module verx.dll so i close and it ended setup.