booting up a packard bell with 4 cd backup disc

[GIO]

Ive just reinstalled a customers computer with there backup discs of windows media centre,its on 4 cds,everything went ok till the end and it said reboot.

when i reboot it comes to a dos screen saying Microsoft Windows 98 and below that the c:/ command and nothing else.

wont start up the operating system,havent a clue why. Im hoping someone will have done this before or came across it.

Its a Pacard Bell xtreme.

when disc 4 is finished it says pop back in disc 1 then it finishes and says its going to reboot.

cheers for any help

gio

 

[phawk754]

only thing i can think of ,if it installed all the files ok then try editing the boot.ini file

 

[GIO]

only thing i can think of ,if it installed all the files ok then try editing the boot.ini file

im at a c prompt,how do u do that and why would i do it and what do i do with it.

 

[phawk754]

try this ,not saying this will fix it

Bootcfg commands:
bootcfg /list - displays the current situation
bootcfg /add - scans for, & optionally adds, XP, 2K, NT installations
bootcfg /rebuild - displays/adds the OSs located
bootcfg /scan - scans for, & displays, XP, 2K, NT installations
bootcfg /default - set the default OS to boot
bootcfg /redirect - enable the Headless Administration feature (redirection)
bootcfg /disableredirect - disable the Headless Administration feature (redirection)

 

[GIO]

try this ,not saying this will fix it

Bootcfg commands:
bootcfg /list - displays the current situation
bootcfg /add - scans for, & optionally adds, XP, 2K, NT installations
bootcfg /rebuild - displays/adds the OSs located
bootcfg /scan - scans for, & displays, XP, 2K, NT installations
bootcfg /default - set the default OS to boot
bootcfg /redirect - enable the Headless Administration feature (redirection)
bootcfg /disableredirect - disable the Headless Administration feature (redirection)

nice one, di this one bootcfg /rebuild and picked a couple of options and next thing it booted up into windows. Must have been the boot ini file was damaged.
thanks for ur suggestion
cheers
gio