re: FDISK Thursday, April 26, 2007 at 12:28 pm Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Ed (603 messages posted) Hi Linda, Sorry I was not able to get back to you before. BTW, I'm going to reply here, in one go, to all of your five posts dated April 25th. Firstly, your post of 12:44pm: SCANREG /RESTORE and SCANREG /FIX will fail if the SCANREG.EXE program is not available. Try to access the folder C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND as this is where that program should be. Also, type the command PATH at the C: prompt, and this should tell you what folders DOS is looking in. If the SCANREG.EXE program is not in one of these folders, you must type the full path to the file, thus : C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\SCANREG.EXE /RESTORE I hope both those steps will fail! But best to be sure. If the partitioning and the formatting steps worked properly, you should now have a completely blank hard disk, with no files or folders on it. (This is why the WIN.EXE program won't run: that program isn't there at present.) Secondly, your post of 2:05pm: The SCANDISK result is good, except that I was NOT expecting to see a reference to a drive D: as you only formatted drive C: so please try to access drive D: and if you can then please try the DIR command and let me know the result. I suppose, with any luck, drive D: is your CD drive. But that wouldn't normally be "seen" by SCANDISK. BTW, I need to know something: do YOU believe that this hard disk is a 6 GB disk? Or something very close to that size, anyway. I asked this before, and it's quite important. Thirdly, your post of 2:22pm: The SYS C: failure is NORMAL. You haven't yet put an operating system on the hard disk. I'm afraid that I'm not familiar with your System Restoration Kit (2 cds), Recovery, and Software Backup CDs. So we must employ some guesswork now. But my guess, from the description, is that the System Restoration Kit CDs might restore Windows, so try them first. If that doesn't do the job, then try the Recovery CD. Recovery CDs can be damaging to your data; but as there is NO data on your newly blanked hard disk, it's pretty safe to try this CD in these special circumstances. Probably the software backup CD contains programs that you can reinstall AFTER you've gotten Windows back on the computer. Ultimately, you can always buy a full install CD version of Windows ME on E B A Y for a few dollars, if all these CDs fail. But if so do remember to *avoid* the cheaper upgrade installation CD, as you CANNOT use an upgrade CD because you have no operating system on the hard disk to upgrade from! Ed On Wednesday, April 25, 2007 at 2:22 pm, Linda wrote: >Ed, when I exited the surface scan program it brought me to the "A" prompt. I typed >in SYS C and here is the info I received: "Cannot find the system file in the standard >locations on drive C:. SYS can only be used on drive C: to attempt a repair of an >already existing installation of Windows. Use Windows SETUP to make drive C: bootable." > > Ed, remember.....I said the cds I have with this pc are: System Restoration Kit >(2 cds), Recovery and Software Backup. Do I use one of these?, Written in response to: re: FDISK (Linda: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 at 2:22 pm) Responses to this message: re: FDISK (Ms. Eagle: Thursday, April 26, 2007 at 1:13 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)