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re: Can't boot to desktop
Tuesday, January 11, 2005 at 9:00 pm
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Posted by Luthien (15 messages posted)


I might be able to do that.If that does not work is there any hope to get back up?Thanks






On Sunday, January 9, 2005 at 6:47 pm, Jack Gulley wrote:
>

The Setup.exe program needs all of the other files in the folder to do an install,
>just like it does when you install from the CD. You would have to copy all of the
>files including the large Win_??.CAB files into a temp folder on the system. One
>of the programs in the folder is a copy of SCANDISK.exe and a PIF file that control
>it during the install process. If this program (and many others) is not present in
>the same folder as Startup when it makes "quite" calls to them, then it will get
>errors like you got.
>

If you have access to a Windows ME system that works, make a startup diskette
>through Add/Remove Programs icon, Startup Disk tab. If it has a CD-RW drive on it,
>make a CD-R with a copy of the folder C:\Windows\Options\Install and by booting with
>the startup diskette you could copy the CD folder to a temp folder on the disk drive
>and then start its Setup.exe.




Written in response to:
re: Can't boot to desktop (Jack Gulley: Sunday, January 9, 2005 at 6:47 pm)

Responses to this message:
*re: Can't boot to desktop (Jack Gulley: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 at 5:46 am)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-Can't boot to desktop (Luthien: Sat, Jan 8, 2005, 3:45 pm)
-re: Can't boot to desktop (Jack Gulley: Sun, Jan 9, 2005, 4:26 am)
-re: Can't boot to desktop (Luthien: Sun, Jan 9, 2005, 10:13 am)
-re: Can't boot to desktop (Jack Gulley: Sun, Jan 9, 2005, 11:21 am)
-re: Can't boot to desktop (Luthien: Sun, Jan 9, 2005, 6:24 pm)
-re: Can't boot to desktop (Jack Gulley: Sun, Jan 9, 2005, 6:47 pm)
-re: Can't boot to desktop (Luthien: Tue, Jan 11, 2005, 9:00 pm)
-re: Can't boot to desktop (Jack Gulley: Wed, Jan 12, 2005, 5:46 am)
-re: Can't boot to desktop (Luthien: Fri, Jan 14, 2005, 5:41 pm)
*re: Can't boot to desktop (Luthien: Fri, Jan 14, 2005, 10:03 pm)
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