Emergency Start Up Floppy Disc

First and foremost you must have a bootable Floppy Disc for when things don't work at all, you can do this very easily by navigating to the following:- Settings> Control Panel> Add/Remove Programs>  Start Up Disc.

 Of course be sure to Label the Floppy Disc accordingly and put it in a safe place. When you need to use the Emergency Floppy, I hope you never do, but it is best to be prepared. You will perhaps have to alter just ONE setting in your computers BIOS chip, this is often available by pressing the DELETE key when you see the memory being tested while the computer going through it's initializing process.

The Floppy drive is A: you might have to change the Boot Up setting (in the BIOS) from C: (which is your Hard drive) to A:    then ESCAPE save settings and Exit.

Now Reset the PC, using the Ctrl/Alt/Del keys pressed all at once and then you should then be able to Boot up from the Floppy disc.

You will then be left at the A: prompt which will in DOS, which was the "operating system" before Windows got invented.  

Now you will need to type in C: (and press ENTER).

If you have previously RUN the program ERU ????? (click here IF you haven't)  you should be able to restore your previous settings and you should be able to regain control of your PC yet again !!!???

Windows 9x