First of all, I am running Slackware/Win98 Dual Boot.
Last night I installed Visual Basic 6 for Win98. It made me restart (go figure) and when it restarted, instead of giving me the LILO boot screen, just simply displayed a ton of 99 99 99 99's.

I have a ton of files that I absolutely CANNOT lose on this hard drive. I need to get around LILO and get into Windows.

I have a boot disk for installation. Is this what I need?

Please help me get back into Windows without reformatting.

Oh, and just for a learning experience...what causes/caused this?

Thank you.

Try putting your Slack CD in and rebooting. You should have instructions for booting into Slack. Once there, run liloconfig and set up LILO again.