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can't start windows
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can't start windows
Monday, June 4, 2007 at 8:59 pm
Posted by Roland
(30 messages posted)
I am getting two messages when trying to start windows. First is "error loading
explorer.exeou must reinstall windows" The second is "unable to run C:\windows\system\runonce.exe"
I usted the start-up disk to no avail. As a last resort I tried to reinstall Windows
from the CD, but can only get through part of the installation process when I get
error messages.
If I were to install Windows in a different directory, can I salvage my data (Word
docs., etc) from the old directory and put them in the new one? Is there anyway I
can get the reinstallation to "take?" I've never run into a situation where I couldn't
reinstall the OS. Any suggestions would be appreciated, since I've gotten desperate
and run out of ideas.
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re: can't start windows
Monday, June 4, 2007 at 10:49 pm
Posted by gewg_
(3925 messages posted)
|[...]can I salvage my data (Word docs., etc) from the old directory
|and put them in the new one?
| Roland
Heh. Another chance to link to one of my favorite stories:
"Is the data on this computer very important?" by GuyFawkes
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=121551&cid=10229143&threshold=3&mode=nested
{/scolding}
You seem to believe it isn't *already* damaged beyond retrieval.
I would stop trying to put stuff ONTO this disk
UNTIL the stuff that I considered valuable had been recovered from it.
The logical ways to do this are:
1) Use a bootable Linux CD or bootable thumbdrive.
2) Find a nerd with a working box.
Take the drive out of your box and mount it as a slave in his.
3) Buy another (used?) HDD and install an OS on it.
(Configure the old drive as a slave.)
Once you have an OS running FROM ANOTHER DISK,
copy the data onto CDs/DVDs/thumbdrives.
Make at least 2 copies of anything valuable
and move one set MILES away from this computer.
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re: can't start windows
Wednesday, June 13, 2007 at 12:16 am
Posted by pstorr
(30 messages posted)
try running msconfig, uncheck all but scanreg and systray in the startup tab.
then re-check the others one at time
ps
On Monday, June 4, 2007 at 8:59 pm, Roland wrote:
>I am getting two messages when trying to start windows. First is "error loading
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