re: Disaster recovery! USB and modem gone
Friday, December 19, 2003 at 5:20 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by carl
(855 messages posted)
I don't know if it's too late to restore your registry to a previous date when everything
was working.
On Friday, December 19, 2003 at 1:05 pm, Will Lindenr wrote:
> HELP! HELP! HELP! I ran into severe problems on my desktop when I went into MS-DOS
>mode and could not get out, either with EXIT or WIN... it simply rebooted back to
>the MS-DOS prompt.
> The "emergency startup disk" offered no help. I tried Norton Rescue, could not
>find anything to get a handle on... after trying everything else, I tried "restore
>boot record" despite the warning. (Derision of my alleged stupidity will go to the
>bit bucket). So then, I could not boot.
>
> Having reached last resort, I went into the IBM emergency Product Recover, thinking
>to restore the backups from my USB drives. I repeatedly tried to install the USB
>drivers, and the drives were still not recognized. I went to the Device Manager,and
>found the USB controller was..gone, apparently be replaced by a useless "Tape Detection".
>The New Hardware Wizard did not even offer USB as a category.
>
> Then I found I could not set up an Internet connection either. THAT Wizard did
>not recognize the modem, and did not include it in its database. It just presented
>a strange loop, demanding over and over that I "install a modem". So I can not even
>get to the net to download drivers, the key is inside the locked box, and my careful
>backups are useless because they are in the same box.
>
> Any suggestions what next? Microslime, of course, it "not supporting" the OS,
and
>I can not afford to "upgrade" to !$!! XP even if I wanted to, which I do not.
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