Linda,

Although you have run into a problem that you don't have the knowledge to deal with 
yourself, the situation is one that can easily be solved. There is no physical damage 
to the computer, it seems, and the faults you have mentioned are all fixable.

However, some suggestions that I could make would fix the computer but would lose 
you all of your files and data on the hard disk. Please state whether you want a 
solution that will fix the fault regardless of this, or whether you want a solution 
that will enable you to recover your files intact from that disk.

Do NOT use the FDISK /MBR command at this stage. A little more analysis is needed 
to decide whether that is the best solution. The FDISK command is one that can lose 
you all your data files.

The reason why some of the repair tools on your CDs don't work is that they need 
to use some Windows ME functions, and you don't currently have access to Windows. 
But maybe we can fix that too.

Ed







On Friday, April 20, 2007 at 4:43 pm, Linda wrote:
Yes Carol, I did the SYS C: as you said, and still got the parameters missing statement. 
I'll do the FDISK /MBR tomorrow (BTW, that's a space after FDISK, right?)
I'm puzzled about your statement re: a repair/reinstall, though....I mentioned none 
of my disks that came with the system work....I just keep getting the message about 
no operating system found....what would I use to accomplish this?