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I think I know the problem. When Fdisk starts up, you get the question to enable large disk support. If you enter in N, you end up with a FAT16...
Here is an idea that may find the Invalid Long File name. Do this command at the prompt, making sure you are at C:\, not C:\Windows, well you will...
blakston6286, I really think your hard drive may be failing. A few things come to mind on this. For one, the possible age of the drive, your...
If fdisk were used, your hard drive would have nothing on it. No Windows or anything. Install after Format Using Fdisk and Format
What you have done is create shortcuts to those files. Open Windows Explorer and the My Documents. In My Documents, go to the Toolbar at...
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There are way too many entries at the root of C:. Perhaps scandisk for dos is having problems with this. He has a 9x and a 3.1 swapfile there....
Himem.Sys will not appear there, it is a memory managing program needed by windows to load. Right at this point C:\>, type in these commands and...
For now you can open a dos window, or Start\Run, type in Command and press Enter. Then type in my commands concerning "ren ". Reboot. You can...
Go to Start\Run, type in Regedit, and press Enter. Then go to the Toolbar at View\Find, type in NoIDE and let it search. When found it should...
Perhaps restoring a backup registry before it is too late. When the computer is booting up, tap the F8 key repeatedly to get to the start up menu,...
Restart in Dos Mode and type in these commands, or start up choosing Command Prompt and type in these commands, pressing Enter at the end of each...
Eissal, if you were to go to Control Panel\System, then click on the Performance tab, do you see anything about Compatability Mode? Click the File...
When you were extracting files, were you doing it in a dos window? If so, you need to restart in dos mode or select Command Prompt from the...
Did you look in the Recycle Bin? Reinstall deleted programs? Clarify what you mean? Otherwise, delete the bad shortcuts, they are pointing to...
When you say running away, do you mean constant or more than usual hard drive activity? Or do you mean you have some sort of CPU usage software...
The only option I see here is to try to fdisk the drive,reboot, format the drive,and attempt to install windows.
Your CD is an IDE device, bad IDE controllers is a big part of the problem. You could try Removing all instances of the IDE controllers so that...
After deleting the Yourname.Pwl, reboot. When the logon box appears, your name may already be there, if not put anything you want there. Do not...
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