re: Windows ME won't startup
Friday, January 19, 2007 at 4:19 am
Posted by Jeno
(242 messages posted)
Did you try using a boot disk and when you get to the A:\ prompt, change to the C:\
prompt and run scanreg /fix?
On Tuesday, January 16, 2007 at 6:15 am, blank wrote:
>I'm having a problem with starting up my computer. It's an older machine running
>Windows ME. The problem I'm having is when I start up the computer I get this error
>message
>
>"Windows has detected a Registry/Configuration error"
>"Use SCANREG to correct the error"
>
>After that message, it gives me the option to start the computer "Normal" or "Safe-Mode"
>
>If I start it "Normal" mode, it says it has detected new Hardware. Only it doesn't
>tell me what "New Hardware" and it tries to search for the necessary drivers to
install.
>If I cancel this out, the computer does absolutely nothing and i can't even get
the
>damn thing to go to the desktop. It also won't let me startup in MS-DOS mode to
run
>SCANREG.
>
>My question is: How do I go about fixing this problem so I can atleast backup the
>data on the harddrive and reinstall a different OS, like XP or something? Or is
it
>possible to just upgrade to another OS like Windows 2000 without losing the data
>on this harddrive. It's important that I get the data off of this harddrive or atleast
>get a backup of it to put onto a brand new computer.
>
>Thank you in advance for taking the time to help me with this.
>
>Blank
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