Re: Reboot.....reboot.....reboot
JimHeavey wrote:
| My machine always boot ans shows me the menu asking me if I want to
| boot normal or in safe mode.
|
| Today I installed drivers for a modem and my thumb drive. Does not
| recognize my thumb drive after the install of the drivers.
|
| Also installed the AOL software and after that install it will never
| successfully boot. Displays the windows logo and then repeats the
| boot process.
|
| I tried to boot in safe mode and go to my CD rom in the hopes that I
| could either do some sort of repair or maybe re-install win98. My CD
| drive does not show.
This article will say how to have Safe Mode recognize the CD-ROM...
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/198687/en-us
How to install real mode CD-ROM drive drivers in Windows 98
| I boot to command mode and again, no cd rom drive.
In order to have a CD-ROM show up at the Command Prompt, you need to
have a fit/proper Config.sys & Autoexec.bat. Did you turn those off?
Boot to Safe Mode & turn them back on, then...
"START button, Run, MSConfig", & check them both at the General tab.
| I have a dos boot disk with CD Rom drivers. When I boot to this, I
| can see the cd rom and when I invoke the setup.exe to reinstall win98
| it tells me that it is unable to write to the disk file. Dos can not
| see my c or d drives (both fat32).
|
| Where do I go from here?
I think you have tried too many installs all at once. You even went
ahead to install AOL while the thumb drive was in limbo. The fact that
you can boot to Safe Mode proves you do have a C:drive for sure. The
fact that a Startup Diskette can access the CD-ROM proves that is fine.
(1) Maybe post the info Brian A. has asked for & wait.
(2) Maybe try the uninstall of AOL (& maybe the thumb
drive too) in Safe Mode as MEB posted & report back.
(3) Well, here is how to recover an older Registry...
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;183887&Product=w98
Description of the Windows Registry Checker Tool (Scanreg.exe)
I'm not a big proponent of a "/Restore", but sometimes it can do amazing
things. Before trying it, copy your current Registry backup files to a
new folder.
(a) Boot to DOS (hold CTRL as you boot for the Startup Menu, &
select "Command Prompt Only")
(b) DIR C:\Windows\Sysbckup\RB???.cab /od
Shows you the current backups sorted by date.
(c) MD C:\RegBckup
This makes a new folder named RegBckup.
(d) COPY C:\Windows\Sysbckup\RB???.cab C:\RegBckup
This copies your Registry backups to the new folder, because the
originals will change as you do the following...
(e) SCANREG /Restore
It will offer five, one for each of the last five separate days you
first booted successfully. Start with the one of the day the problem
began, as these backups of the entire Registry (& System.ini & Win.ini)
are done at boot, not at shut down.
CAVEAT: A /Restore restores settings only. If there was a file change
(other than to System.ini & Win.ini), those cannot be undone this way.
That could be a problem, especially if there was a hardware change or
large un/in-stall since the backup was made. Also, a large settings
change, such as adding/removing a User Profile, is likely best undone a
different way. Finally, some apps may keep a small database in the
Registry. I do believe Explorer itself may keep its list of blocked
sites there.
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Thanks or Good Luck,
There may be humor in this post, and,
Naturally, you will not sue,
Should things get worse after this,
PCR
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