How to stop user from inputting negative number into unsigned long?

I actually posted this code already for another problem and got some good help on it. But theres one more thing id like to do to make the input even better able to handle user error, but im not sure if its possible or at least easy. I need the function to return a large positive number. As of right now, it can handle users entering characters, but what if the user enters a negative number? is there a way to check to see if what is coming in is negative before the sign gets lost in conversion to unsigned"ness"?

Code:

unsigned long getNum(char prompt[80])
{
   unsigned long darts;
   printf("%s", prompt);
   while((scanf("%lu", &darts)) != 1)
   {
      while(getchar() != '\n')
      ;
      printf("\nThis is not an acceptable entry. please try again.\n\n");
      printf("%s", prompt);
   }
   return darts;
}

Read it as a string
Try and find a -
convert the string using sscanf (or strtoul)

Alternately you could echo the input back to them and have them confirm their own typing.

Enter in a positive integer: -4
You typed "4294967292" is that correct? y/n N
Enter a positive integer: 1
You typed "1" is that correct? y/n Y
...

scanf and strtoul will both do implicit conversion from negative values to the equivalent unsigned value. So, if you start with just the unsigned value, there's not any way to know that it was originally negative. I would first read it into a signed value and then check whether the signed value is in range.

Code:

#include <inttypes.h>
// ...

// return true if x is not a valid unsigned long
bool invalid_unsigned_long(int64_t x);

unsigned long getNum(char prompt[80])
{
   unsigned long darts;
   int64_t x=0;
   printf("%s", prompt);
   while(((scanf("%"SCNd64, &x)) != 1) || invalid_unsigned_long(x))
   {
      while(getchar() != '\n')
        ;
      printf("\nThis is not an acceptable entry. please try again.\n\n");
      printf("%s", prompt);
   }
   darts = (unsigned long)x;
   return darts;
}

The function should check whether x is out of range. i.e. less than 0 or greater than ULONG_MAX