My windows won't start

[Guest]

Hi All,
I installed a game for my son (Knowledge adventure ,Pre-k) I ran the game once, the computer locked up so I rebooted it. Now it goes into scandisk, it gets about 20% finished and then says it detected a file that has a long filename and cannot continue, then it trys to start windows then the screen goes black. The text says something like system.ini is looking for several *.vxd files and they are missing, so I keep hitting return and finally the computer just powers off. I have a boot disk and a win98 cd. Should I just reinstall win98 and if so how do I? I tried to run the setup program on the cd and it said "This program requires microsoft windows" Now it won't go into windows at all. Can anybody help please, I am a novice.

Thanks,
Mike

 

[Arrow]

Have you tried booting into safe mode? Will that work?
(Hit F8 when you see Windows is now starting...)

Rob
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[Guest]

Yes thanks,
I have tried booting into safe mode, It just does the same thing. I've also tried restoring the registry to a previous date and that didn't work.

 

[NickM]

You mean you ran Scandisk from Safe Mode and it didn't help?

Try System Tools > System Information > System File Checker

As the last resort, install Windows into the same Windows directory.
I even answered "no" on all prompts to update, and that fixed my problems anyway.

Another thing. Before to run the CD, read the Setup.txt file first (or some other *.txt or redme files) on it.
There's a discription on some switches /I, /IG to get rid of those messages you probably getting.

 

[Guest]

Howdy,

Lets try and narrow this down a bit.

If you are unable to get into safe mode boot to a BOOTDISK and check out C:\bootlog.txt

At the dos prompt type

EDIT C:\BOOTLOG.TXT

This should give you some sort of hint as to what ecactly is failing. Just check out the last line, it is usualy related to the problem. It is not as simple as that, and it can take some expirience to decipher the meaning of the BOOTLOG, let alone know how to fix the problem, but it is a plce to start. Check it out and post the informtion in it here.

Darrin Z.



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