catgirl Which version of Win98 do you have ? And how did you do the re-install ? BillyBob
That is a bit of good news. 2nd day of New Year. 2nd thing learned for the new year. I will need to remember that the next time I mess...
I have only seen that message when booting from the HD to do an install/re-install over top. Which I no longer try anyway. When booting...
Thanks Zephyr That is what I thought it would mean. I just never saw it before. 1st day of the New Year. 1st new thing learned for the...
Having had similar and other problems I keep all of my machines set to the boot sequence of A, C. Seems to make life a lot easier in cases of...
BootGUI=Boolean Default: 1 Well I did took a gander and I have to say that I have never seen anything like that before. BootGUI= 1 or 2...
Oh Key Doe Key. If that is the case then I am outta here. Gateway has their own way of doing things. And only someone that is familiar with a...
Then either your machine is quite different than mine or else Scandisk /surface or Norton DiskDoctor had been run to mark them bad so that they...
Forgot to add this. If your Wifes' machine has win98 or higher make a startup disk and see it the machine with problem(s) will boot form it....
It is time to stop beating around the bushes and get back to the basics. Unless you have the FULL SET of Windows setup files on your Wifes' PC...
Gee !! Did I not see that mentioned somewhere before ? If they were actually bad sectors scandisk or defrag would not have completed. As...
Did you re-install any Mother Board Drivers that may be needed ? If there are MB drivers they need to be re-installed every time Windows is....
OK. That link looks good. But, I THINK it only applies to as it states running a DOS program from a shortcut. I do not think the fix would...
Zander There many different reasons for this and it is VERY hard to say who is right and who is wrong. I have had the same message come up...
No format required. But it does depend on which version of SE was used. FULL or UPGRADE version will go back in on top of existing. But...
The computer will reboot back into windows. It may or may not do that. If start/shutdown/restart in MS-DOS mode was selected and was actuall...
edit/correction to my first reply X are files that Windows does move That should read that Defrag does NOT move. BillyBob
I believe scandisk only does this when run as scandisk /surface and then they are marked and show with a B in the box. But either way they do...
IF you run Defrag and it also completes with no problems those little boxes with the X are files that Windows does move. If you see a whole lot in...
If it prompts you to type the name of the command interpreter, type win.com Unless things have changed greatly in recent times it is looking...
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