Thanks Miz I've decided to stop doing anything more to the puter for now. In order to reinstall Windows I have to FDisk and I won't do that...
Thanks much Zander and everyone else who assisted here. I'm going to take a break from it all for a bit and listen to some Wagner. Then maybe...
No the setup files are not on the hdd nor the GATEWAY factory disk. I'm going to follow your advice and retrieve all the important data I...
Tel33, What I have is the GATEWAY system disk that contains Win98 Win2000 files on it. When it's in the CD Rom it prompts me to boot from...
Yup ..... I agree with BOTH of you. I will however, post back with an update if there IS a resolution. Thanks for your patience and attempts...
Merlin, Thanks for your candid opinion. I respect that. I could always use a slave, so you're right. Time to bite the bullet, throw up...
Gamma: After choosing that year and a half old date for my registry restore, going back to restore to the dates from today both say "Did Not...
I don't have a floppy that boots this machine. I dl'd the Win98 SE version from Bootdisk.com however it's not working at bootup. Just ignores a...
Sorry to confuse you. My problem started when Explorer.exe would not load, causing me to have no taskbar and start button. Several...
Scanreg / Restore operation In my quest to do CPR on my ailing machine, I'm wanting to do a scanreg /restore to a time earlier than when my...
After unsuccessfully attempting to resolve my Explorer.exe problem, I am faced with reinstalling Windows 98 on my Gateway (preinstalled) system....
I have a feeling the only way to resolve this is to reinstall Windows. I sure didn't want to resort to that, since I'm on a Gateway preinstalled...
Thanks Mark. I followed your instructions but once I got into the Microsoft Registry Checker it's asking me which .cab to restore from. I have a...
In case I must reinstall Windows, how would I go about doing that from the Dos prompt, since that's the only place I can get to ? I have the...
Ok, finally got to boot wi/o a power failure. Your suggestion didn't work. Network plugged in or not, I get as far as entering the network,...
Sorry ...... I'm trying to boot up w/o the network plug right now. Ran into a new symptom. The computer begins to boot up and then just loses...
Just checking back to see if anyone had any ideas about my problem. I'll check back tomorrow I guess, and in the meantime try to resolve it...
I promise if you help me resolve this problem I'll quit procrastinating about being a contributing member. (not joking) Seems I need you guys...
A little more info ........... I can get to the DOS choice of Safe/Logging/Command Prompt, etc Everything seems to boot up fine, except that...
No I'm not able to boot in safe mode either. Everything goe sjust fine until Explorer.exe starts to load, then my taskbar disappears and I have...
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