Meltdown on ME Bootup
Thursday, March 22, 2007 at 11:29 am
Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Joan Hegeman
(1 messages posted)
Our Gateway (purchased in '99 or '00) was originally loaded with 98SE. About two
years ago,many things seemed to go wrong, culminating in a replaced C drive.The technician
also upgraded us to ME.
A week ago, we were running ScanDisk, overnight in fact, and my husband finally turned
it off. To get all his Tray programs going again,I
told him to him to turn it off, then on. It came back in Safe Mode - frozen mouse,
no tool bars, on the desktop screen.
I've been poring through the net and forums, & the answer is to always do thus &
so forth while in Safe Mode. How?! I tried letter shortcuts & anything I could think
of. Nothing moved on the screen.
Since we have no disks, I've downloaded "bootdisks" and I'm not having much sucess
getting that to work.By the way, can a diskette be reused? Do you do anything special
to it when it's new? Or if you want to overwrite? Maybe that's part of my problem,
Oh, the nonboot message was that there was a problem with the Registry, or no Registry.
Could the ScanDisk have messed things up?
Now, I have a System Restore and an Operating System Backup CD for 98. Will these
work or would the computer just become hopelessly messed-up? What's the difference
between the two disks, anyway?
As I say, I'm using the diskette in the A drive, and it took a number of tries before
it would take me from A prompt to C prompt.I entered "scanreg/restore" and received
"Not ready reading drive D" as a reply. I don't see how D figures into this.....
Anyway, many thanks to anyone who can get me through this, even if it's only to say
scrap the 'puter - it's finally dead!
Joan
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