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Sunday, May 1, 2005 at 9:43 am
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Posted by Muncin98 (1 messages posted)


My system (Win98) would freeze in the black screen following the logo screen (which helps to show if the system freezes on boot). I restored the registry from around the last known good boot and we're back in action. THANKS EVERYONE!


On Thursday, December 16, 2004 at 8:57 am, Natasha wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I started having trouble similar to those in this string when I started my computer
>one day and received an Invalid System Disk error. I have since been able to get
>it to boot to a command prompt. I know that the msdos.sys file is corrupt and have
>seen instructions on correcting it but cannot get past the read only attribute. I
>also have received the message Not resetting hidden file c:\msdos.sys.
>
>I have tried the attrib -r -h -s msdos.sys and also tried to fix it through msdos
>editor. Any more ideas on getting it out of read-only mode? I saw the note about
>scanreg/restore and will give that a try. Thank you for any help you can give.
>
>I'd still really like to know for my own edification how to get past that read-only
>attribute when in dos. Thanks!
>
>Natasha
>
>
>


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re: Changing file attributes (Natasha: Thursday, December 16, 2004 at 8:57 am)

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All messages in this thread [show all]
-Question about 'Why can't I start Windows when I boot from a floppy?' (Chell: Sun, Nov 25, 2001, 2:26 am)
-re: Question about 'Why can't I start Windows when I boot from a floppy?' (robojam: Sun, Nov 25, 2001, 10:30 am)
*sounds like a problem with the registry... (amaralliya e. thenardier: Sun, Nov 25, 2001, 11:28 am)
*re: Question about 'Why can't I start Windows when I boot from a floppy?' (sekirt: Sun, Nov 25, 2001, 2:45 pm)
-re: Question about 'Why can't I start Windows when I boot from a floppy?' (Everett: Sun, Nov 25, 2001, 6:23 pm)
-re: Question about 'Why can't I start Windows when I boot from a floppy?' (Dino LaMana: Wed, Jan 22, 2003, 1:55 pm)
-re: Startup problems (Everett: Wed, Jan 22, 2003, 3:04 pm)
*re: Startup problems (Dino LaMana: Wed, Jan 22, 2003, 10:06 pm)
-re: Startup problems (Dino LaMana: Sun, Jan 26, 2003, 12:51 pm)
-re: Changing file attributes (Everett: Sun, Jan 26, 2003, 2:26 pm)
-re: Changing file attributes (Dino LaMana: Sun, Jan 26, 2003, 10:06 pm)
-re: Changing file attributes (Everett: Mon, Jan 27, 2003, 10:42 am)
*re: Changing file attributes (Dino LaMana: Mon, Jan 27, 2003, 4:35 pm)
-re: Changing file attributes (Natasha: Thu, Dec 16, 2004, 8:57 am)
*Restored Registry (Muncin98: Sun, May 1, 2005, 9:43 am)
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