[OT] Computer help.
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Dragongirl
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Canis said:
I built my new computer, to a degree. Came with case, CD-ROM and motherboard. I put in the HD, Sound and Video cards. Windows 98 was working on it for about a year. But I started having problems a bit ago (think I got a virus). Ended up having to reformat the HD and since then I have been having problems of one kind or another. Have had to re-install Win 98 quite a few times in the last few weeks. My opinion is that the CD is just getting worn out.
As to where I got the CD, I bought it (well my father did) years ago when 98 first came out.
Simplicity. I will have to try that. Not tonight though, too frustrated with the whole thing.
Griswold. I saw what you posted before you edited.
Jeremy Ackerman-Yost
Explorer
Ouch. Good luck with that, Dragongirl. Sometimes it takes a while to shake the ghosts out after something like that. I know it seems redundant, but another formatting sometimes helps.
Not to discourage you, but I once had to just buy a new hard drive for a lab computer with similar issues. I kept the old hard drive as a slave for data storage, since the occasional error on a non-boot disk is a lot more bearable than random Windows crashes.
Perhaps this will cheer you a little (or maybe my sense of humor is on the fritz... it happens). But I found it amusing that when I ran this page through the Dialectizer (as mentioned here, this is one of your quotes:
It just gives me a whole new picture of you
Not to discourage you, but I once had to just buy a new hard drive for a lab computer with similar issues. I kept the old hard drive as a slave for data storage, since the occasional error on a non-boot disk is a lot more bearable than random Windows crashes.
Perhaps this will cheer you a little (or maybe my sense of humor is on the fritz... it happens). But I found it amusing that when I ran this page through the Dialectizer (as mentioned here, this is one of your quotes:
It just gives me a whole new picture of you
I didn't see the part about you having deleted your windows folder until after I posted. You might want to boot to DOS with an emergency boot disk, create a win98 folder on yur HD and copy the x:\win98 (where x is your cd drive letter) folder to the folder you created on the hard drive and run setup from there.If you reformat, and I prolly would at this point, do an fdisk /mbr after you format the drive, sometimes that clears some of that old junk that collects in the master boot record.
G.
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Dragongirl
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Griswold said:
G.
Interesting idea. I am not that great with DOS what exactly would the command look like? Saying the CD-Rom is F and the HD is C.
While you are at it, making a dir.....don't know the DOS for that either.
Dragongirl
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Canis, you are too funny. Cop some bloke eh? Never heard it called that before.
Dragongirl said:
boot from your bootdisk,
ok to format the drive it would be: format c: /u /s <press enter> /u bypasses saving unformat data, /s makes the HD bootable
to clear master boot record: fdisk /mbr <press enter>
to make the folder on the HD the command would be md win98 <press enter>
to get to the correct folder on the CD-ROM you would use:
f: <press enter>
cd win98 <press enter>
copy *.* c:\win98 <press enter>
once the copy is done, reboot then,
c: <press enter>
cd win98 <press enter>
setup <press enter>
and setup should start. I think that should cover everything. You will need a bootable Win98 or ME emergency disk with CD-Rom drivers.
hope this helps
Griswold
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Dragongirl
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Thanks Griswold, will try that tomorrow or later tonight. Whenever I get in the mood to try to tackle this again.
I used to know more DOS when I was kid working on my father's computer, but now I am pretty much down to : CD, Dir and Del.
I used to know more DOS when I was kid working on my father's computer, but now I am pretty much down to : CD, Dir and Del.
Dragongirl said:Thanks Griswold, will try that tomorrow or later tonight. Whenever I get in the mood to try to tackle this again.
I used to know more DOS when I was kid working on my father's computer, but now I am pretty much down to : CD, Dir and Del.
Your welcome, hope it helps. If ya got any questions feel free to email me.
G.
Jeremy Ackerman-Yost
Explorer
Well, right, yer'll be after wantin' ter peel to the dialectizer, then?Dragongirl said:Canis, you are too funny. Cop some bloke eh? Never heard it called that before.
Well, my lady may wish ter broaden 'er 'orizons as an escape from computerized pains. The realm o' wich, by the by, Master Griswold 'as proven much more capable of 'elpin' yer than a lowly salt of the Earth like meself. So I turn ter more jesterly purwhistle and flutes as befits me 'umble roots.
Yer too can cop yorself an embarrassment of linguistic riches wiv wich ter amuse yer mates and taunt yer enemies.
Oh, and good luck with the computer
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