Hardware Tips: Create Your Own Emergency Boot Disk
Create an emergency boot disk, identify mysterious components.
Pop quiz: Windows won't start. Do you: A. Panic; B. Take a siesta; C. Calmly smile as you pull out your customized emergency boot disk, use it to start your computer, and proceed to fix your system?
If you answered C, I commend you. If you chose B, I envy you. But if you picked A, I can help. It's time for you to make an emergency boot disk that does the standard Windows version one better.
Every version of Windows 9x lets you make an emergency boot floppy disk. When you boot from the floppy, Windows takes you to a DOS prompt where you can run DOS utility programs to evaluate and repair your hard disk, fix Windows, copy critical data to a safe location, or (in the worst case) reinstall Windows.
Creating a boot floppy is the same in all versions of Windows 9x and in Me: Select Start, Settings, Control Panel, open the Add/Remove applet, select the Startup Disk tab, and click Create Disk. (You'll need a blank, formatted floppy disk.)
If Windows is already misbehaving and you can't make a boot floppy, insert your Windows 98 or Windows Me CD-ROM and reboot. Check the boot options section of your system's CMOS setup program to find out whether your PC supports CD-ROM boot-up. To open your CMOS setup program, restart your computer and press Delete, F1, F8, or whatever key your PC tells you to press to enter setup. If your system can boot from its CD-ROM, you'll see the same DOS prompt brought up by the boot floppy; the CD-ROM lacks many of the floppy's DOS utilities, however.
Windows boot floppies contain useful DOS troubleshooting utilities, but they lack some of the key files you'll need to get your system up and running.
CD-ROM drive. You need special DOS drivers for your PC's CD-ROM drive to run under DOS. Windows 98 and Me boot disks automatically install generic DOS drivers that work with many, if not most, CD-ROM drives.
To see if you're in the driver's seat, use your boot floppy to get a DOS prompt, place a CD in the CD-ROM drive, and type dir n: (where n is the letter assigned to your CD-ROM drive). If you see a list of the files on the CD, the DOS driver works. If you don't see a list of the CD's files, make sure you're looking under the right drive letter.
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At this point, I would attempt to recover all of the information from the system, and place it on an external media mass storage device, like a flash drive, or external hard drive. If the system is damaged to the point that it would not start up, or boot, I would remove the hard drive from the computer, and install it on a separate computer as the secondary hard drive. Doing this means that the hard drive does not need to start up, but will only work if the filing system on the hard drive is intact, thus allowing the information to be removed. To disconnect, and reconnect the hard drive:
Well, Before anything else, here is a few names of components that need to be known to not be completely lost. The CPU(Central Processing Unit) (It processes everything from basic instructions to complex functions.) (Techterms.com). The Hard drive (the location of all the computer’s folders, files, and information, saved magnetically so even if turned off it’ll all stay saved). The RAM (Random Access Memory) (The more RAM your computer has, the more data can be loaded from the hard drive into the RAM, which can effectively speed up your computer.)(Techterms.com), The OS (Operating System) (just what it sounds like, this is the system that works the computer, as in Windows, Linux, and Apple OS.) The Graphics card (helps the CPU by processing the graphics portion of what the CPU has to process). The Disk Drive( this is the CD,DVD, or Blu-Ray driver that is installed to use CD’s DVD’s and or Blu-Ray disks.) The last major term to know is the Motherboard ...
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Waking up in the middle of the night when sick is flat out frustrating for the adult. Waking up in the middle of the night to your three-year-old toddler not being able to breathe is flat out terrifying. Three thoughts seem to circulate in your brain as you rush into their room in the middle of the night. The first is: what it wrong with them? They seemed fine when you put them to bed hours ago. As you assess the big picture, your mind can’t help but wonder what to do for them or how to help them because you have no idea why they seem to have to trouble breathing. You attempt to try not to panic at the little lips that look like they might be turning blue while at the same time the thought of ambulance or driving to the emergency room flashes through your mind. This can be just one scenario to children who are stricken with a Respiratory syncytial viral infection.
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