Hi, I need to somehow fix my windows ME registry through DOS, as, because of a registry error, I can't access my desktop. Safe mode won't work, neither will scanreg (and scandisk stops working halfway through). I've run f-prot, but it can find no viruses. What do I do? Where do I go? Is there a download that will save me. Please help.

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Hi Robert, You could try typing Sacnreg /fix from DOS to fix your registry. don't forget to put the space between Scanreg and /fix. Linda


On Saturday, July 10, 2004 at 3:28 am, Robert wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I need to somehow fix my windows ME registry through DOS, as, because of a registry
>error, I can't access my desktop. Safe mode won't work, neither will scanreg (and
>scandisk stops working halfway through). I've run f-prot, but it can find no viruses.
>What do I do? Where do I go? Is there a download that will save me. Please help.

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Hi Linda, Have tried scanreg /fix (and scanreg /restore), but neither work. Anything else from dos I can use? robert


On Saturday, July 10, 2004 at 9:21 am, Linda wrote:
>Hi Robert,
> You could try typing Sacnreg /fix from DOS to fix your registry. don't forget
>to put the space between Scanreg and /fix.
>Linda
>
>
>

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Are you accessing DOS via a boot disk?


On Saturday, July 10, 2004 at 9:48 am, Robert wrote:
>
>Hi Linda,
>
>Have tried scanreg /fix (and scanreg /restore), but neither work. Anything else from
>dos I can use?
>
>robert
>
>

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You can put Delindex.bat onto your bootdisk and run it from the DOS prompt:

A:\>delindex run

And press Enter.

Then try running: A:\>scandisk /all ... again.

You would be surprised how a simple thing like that can ... sometimes ... make a 
difference.
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You may have a problem with the disk drive itself. From your Windows ME boot diskette (DOS), run SCANDISK C: and then let it run a thorough scan of the disk drive. It may take a long time. If it stalls at some points, then you know there are disk errors that it is trying to correct. Be aware, that if it can not correct these disk errors and save the data, it just fills in zeros for the lost data. This could have caused your registry corruption in the first place.

Once you have ran a full SCANDISK C: then try doing the SCANREG /RESTORE again.

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scanreg, scandisk - neither of them work. I will try that delindex.bat, but I think my harddrive is almost dead. Today I have gone to a friends house, plugged in my c drive into his computer, and I'm slowly rescuing all my files. The hard drive is so fragile, prone to disappearing and having to restart, that it can't handle burning straight off onto CD, so I have to copy file-by-file onto his drive, then burn off onto CD from there. One question - I need to get my outlook express emails and address book, but where are they held?


On Saturday, July 10, 2004 at 8:14 pm, Jack Gulley wrote:
>

You may have a problem with the disk drive itself. From your Windows ME boot diskette
>(DOS), run SCANDISK C: and then let it run a thorough scan of the disk drive.
>It may take a long time. If it stalls at some points, then you know there are disk
>errors that it is trying to correct. Be aware, that if it can not correct these disk
>errors and save the data, it just fills in zeros for the lost data. This could have
>caused your registry corruption in the first place.
>

Once you have ran a full SCANDISK C: then try doing the SCANREG /RESTORE again.

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