re: Question about 'What to do about error messages during Windows startup'
Saturday, November 24, 2001 at 11:53 am
Posted by brett long
(1 messages posted)
Jason,
1) Acquire a windows 98 boot disk or start disk. And her windows 98 cd. Make sure
you have the cd key handy (5 sets of 5 characters, 25 in all).
2) Check bios (f2, f10, or delete key on power up) to see that floppy/removable is
1st in boot sequence, cd-rom is second, and hard drive is third, Use floppy to start
the computer, choose cd-rom support option.
3) CD C:\WINDOWS RENAME WIN.COM WIN.BAK
4) CD D:\ (CD E:\ if partitioned hard drive)
5) SETUP .
If the fates are kind this will reinstall windows 98 and leave her applications and
data alone. It's not a bad idea to take the (2nd computer and 2-3 hours ) time necessary
to backup her data. Your call on the value of her data.
Best,
Brett
On Saturday, November 24, 2001 at 11:39 am, Jason V wrote:
>I have a question about What
>to do about error messages during Windows startup:
>
>By accident my mother in Laws system ini file has been deleted and of course and
>windows will not boot she is using windows 98 plus. How do I do a reinstall
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before doing that...
Saturday, November 24, 2001 at 3:34 pm
Posted by amaralliya e. thenardier
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boot to a dos prompt and enter:
scanreg/restore
pick a backup from before the file was deleted.
why will this work? along with system.dat and user.dat, win.ini and system.ini are
backed up by scanreg.
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