re: When I try to boot normally, I get an error message "Windows protection error. Restart computer. System halted."
Wednesday, October 14, 2009 at 4:19 am
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Posted by Don
(1 messages posted)
Hi Chris,
I had same problem as you about 2 months ago. I did what Keith is suggesting here
and it worked just fine.
Don
On Thursday, October 1, 2009 at 4:27 am, Keith Stanier wrote:
>Chrstine Sanchez wrote:
>|I have tried to use a Systems Suite by Ontrack to boot from, and there were no
restore
>|points available. When I tried to run disk fixer, the program stops and says system
>|error.
>
>Hi Christine.
>
>You can do a system restore in DOS but not from the Boot menu as there is no Command
>Prompt Only on a WinME system as there is on a Win98SE system. You need a bootable
>floppy, thats if you have a floppy drive?
>
>Boot up with the floppy disk inserted if it doesn't read the floppy you will have
>to go into the CMOS/BIOS and change the boot sequence. Once at the A:\ prompt you
>can type in Scanreg /restore and Enter and choose a date when it last started
>up ok.
>
>If you get a bad command or filename message then you can either type in Path=C:\windows\command
>then type in Scanreg /restore. Or you can type in cd C:\windows\command and
>type Scanreg /restore and Enter
>
>If you want to check you drive for errors there should be Scandisk on the boot disk
>you can do a full scan of your drive which will show up any bad sectors that if
may
>repair.
>
>At the A:\ prompt just type in Scandisk and Enter.
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