Any way I can continue booting from hard drive after beginning boot on floppy?

[Kwad Guy]

If I boot my computer using a Win98 boot floppy, is there
any way I can then continue to boot my computer from the
hard drive without having to restart the computer?

I have a HP VEi7 (Sis 620 chipset) computer that I
can only seem to boot from a floppy (but once booted
from a floppy, the hard drive is visible).

Is there some file I can execute on the hard drive (which
has Win98 or Win2000 installed) to continue the boot
process?

Thanks,

Kwad

 

[Fardringle]

You can't boot into anything related to 2000/NT (other than the repair disks) with a floppy. Booting with a Win98 disk and then going to your C:\WINDOWS directory and typing WIN (or WIN.EXE) may allow you to continue loading Windows. I have seen computers installed exactly the same where some will allow this and some will not, but it's worth a try...

 

[Whitedog]

The windows version has to be the same version as the floppies command.com
If you're at a DOS prompt, just type WIN. It should go into Windows.

 

[Whitedog]

Oh yea, you'll probably have to go to windows directory like Fard says
Just have to type WIN from there. Also, it's win.com, not .exe

I've had people try to go into Windows98 after booting with Win95 floopy. Just doesn't work If they are the same, it works fine.

And also as Fard says, you can forget it if the OS is 2000/NT.