re: Major Mistake Saturday, April 21, 2007 at 12:15 pm Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Ms. Eagle (32675 messages posted) I've been grasping at straws to try to get some sort of results. However, I wouldn't give you instr. to wipe out your data, i.e. FDISK as Ed implied. I wouldn't waste any more time trying to deal with this through this forum, or... take any further advice from Ed on this problem. FDISK /MBR only rewrites the Master Boot Record, and far as I know, the only case where that may make matters worse is if there's more than one partition on a drive. Linda, the repair/reinstall I'm referring to (I posted a link to Jack Gulley's instr), is to do an over the top install of ME from the command prompt. Jack Gulley's instructions: Reinstall ME from CABS FYI, here's his website, and I'd bookmark it for future ref, Linda. He was very knowledgeable and experienced with ME and all areas of computing in general. Windows ME Fixes I'd forgotten you would need to locate your ME Product Key first, so I've been trying to locate Jack's instr. for that. I finally came across this thread on another forum (in which Jack had responded). See instr. by Mesich on locating Product Key from command prompt.... CK is right, this is too complex to try to deal with through a forum. If you have a savvy friend acquaintance who'd be willing to help... Print out the instr. for locating the Product Key and reinstalling ME from CAB files. There may (should) be a set of CAB install files on your hard disk from which you can reinstall ME from. CABS are compressed setup files. Doing that would repair your ME installation, and leave all data intact. You would need to reinstall all Windows ME updates, though. Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts File Written in response to: re: Major Mistake (Linda: Friday, April 20, 2007 at 4:43 pm) Responses to this message: Edit.. re: Major Mistake (Ms. Eagle: Saturday, April 21, 2007 at 12:41 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Major Mistake (Linda: Thu, Apr 19, 2007, 7:21 am) re: Major Mistake (Don: Thu, Apr 19, 2007, 4:01 pm) re: Major Mistake (Linda: Thu, Apr 19, 2007, 5:07 pm) re: Major Mistake (Linda: Thu, Apr 19, 2007, 5:15 pm) re: Major Mistake (Steve: Thu, Apr 19, 2007, 7:05 pm) re: Major Mistake (Linda: Thu, Apr 19, 2007, 7:43 pm) re: Major Mistake (Steve: Thu, Apr 19, 2007, 7:56 pm) re: Major Mistake (Ms. Eagle: Thu, Apr 19, 2007, 11:55 pm) re: Major Mistake (Steve: Fri, Apr 20, 2007, 11:17 am) re: Major Mistake (Ms. Eagle: Fri, Apr 20, 2007, 11:33 am) re: Major Mistake (Alan Masterman: Thu, Apr 19, 2007, 8:16 pm) re: Major Mistake (Ms. Eagle: Thu, Apr 19, 2007, 11:50 pm) re: Major Mistake (Ed: Fri, Apr 20, 2007, 4:50 am) re: Major Mistake (Linda: Fri, Apr 20, 2007, 10:36 am) re: Major Mistake (Linda: Fri, Apr 20, 2007, 11:01 am) re: Major Mistake (Linda: Fri, Apr 20, 2007, 11:23 am) re: Major Mistake (Ms. Eagle: Fri, Apr 20, 2007, 11:44 am) re: Major Mistake (Linda: Fri, Apr 20, 2007, 1:39 pm) re: Major Mistake (Linda: Fri, Apr 20, 2007, 2:11 pm) re: Major Mistake (Ms. Eagle: Fri, Apr 20, 2007, 2:25 pm) re: Major Mistake (Linda: Fri, Apr 20, 2007, 4:43 pm) re: Major Mistake (Ed: Sat, Apr 21, 2007, 4:52 am) re: Major Mistake (Linda: Sat, Apr 21, 2007, 6:54 am) re: Major Mistake (C K: Sat, Apr 21, 2007, 10:18 am) re: Major Mistake (Ms. Eagle: Sat, Apr 21, 2007, 12:45 pm) re: Major Mistake (C K: Sat, Apr 21, 2007, 4:02 pm) re: Major Mistake (Linda: Sun, Apr 22, 2007, 7:01 am) re: Major Mistake (Linda: Sun, Apr 22, 2007, 7:38 am) re: Major Mistake (Linda: Sun, Apr 22, 2007, 7:44 am) re: Major Mistake (Linda: Sun, Apr 22, 2007, 7:57 am) re: Major Mistake (C K: Sun, Apr 22, 2007, 8:17 am) re: Major Mistake (Ms. Eagle: Sun, Apr 22, 2007, 1:58 pm) re: Major Mistake (Ms. Eagle: Sun, Apr 22, 2007, 3:44 pm) re: Major Mistake (Linda: Sun, Apr 22, 2007, 4:18 pm) re: Major Mistake (Linda: Sun, Apr 22, 2007, 4:27 pm) re: Major Mistake (Ed: Sun, Apr 22, 2007, 7:00 pm) re: PS (Ed: Sun, Apr 22, 2007, 8:14 pm) re: FDISK (Ed: Sun, Apr 22, 2007, 8:36 pm) re: FDISK (Linda: Mon, Apr 23, 2007, 6:38 am) re: FDISK (Ed: Mon, Apr 23, 2007, 1:54 pm) re: FDISK (Ed: Tue, Apr 24, 2007, 12:30 pm) re: FDISK (Linda: Wed, Apr 25, 2007, 7:21 am) re: FDISK (Linda: Wed, Apr 25, 2007, 12:44 pm) re: FDISK (Linda: Wed, Apr 25, 2007, 1:42 pm) re: FDISK (Linda: Wed, Apr 25, 2007, 2:05 pm) re: FDISK (Linda: Wed, Apr 25, 2007, 2:22 pm) re: FDISK (Ed: Thu, Apr 26, 2007, 12:28 pm) re: FDISK (Ms. Eagle: Thu, Apr 26, 2007, 1:13 pm) re: FDISK (Ed: Thu, Apr 26, 2007, 1:36 pm) re: FDISK (Ms. Eagle: Thu, Apr 26, 2007, 2:13 pm) re: FDISK (Linda: Thu, Apr 26, 2007, 4:28 pm)