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I have an ME machine that I gave up on a while back. As I remember, I was
getting some error about corrupt registry and the machine would not re-boot
(a year ago).
Instead of it sitting on a shelf, I want to try to get it to work again.
I started the machine with the emergency boot disk, and ran ScanDisk.
Fiddling around with the results, I saw an area to restore an old registry
point.
I did that, and the machine re-booted. (Now, the left side of the windows
explorer is blank, doesn't show the tree of folders)
I downloaded Spybot, and removed some junk that it found (I've used Spybot a
lot, I trusted the results)
Now, upon reboot, the machine always wants to do a ScanDisk, because the
"abnormal system termination" checkbox is checked. And, I always cancel
that.
Anyway, the machine is a mess, and I want to re-install the OS. I would like
to save some of the stuff I have on it. Can I re-install over top of the
existing OS within wiping the drive ?
I seem to see varying opinions about this. Any caveats ? This whole process
has been misery (I probably will be flamed for not giving enough info, but I
give up on fixing it. I need to re-install)
Any caveats about trying to go to W2K pro ?
Thanks for any advice,
Mike
I have an ME machine that I gave up on a while back. As I remember, I was
getting some error about corrupt registry and the machine would not re-boot
(a year ago).
Instead of it sitting on a shelf, I want to try to get it to work again.
I started the machine with the emergency boot disk, and ran ScanDisk.
Fiddling around with the results, I saw an area to restore an old registry
point.
I did that, and the machine re-booted. (Now, the left side of the windows
explorer is blank, doesn't show the tree of folders)
I downloaded Spybot, and removed some junk that it found (I've used Spybot a
lot, I trusted the results)
Now, upon reboot, the machine always wants to do a ScanDisk, because the
"abnormal system termination" checkbox is checked. And, I always cancel
that.
Anyway, the machine is a mess, and I want to re-install the OS. I would like
to save some of the stuff I have on it. Can I re-install over top of the
existing OS within wiping the drive ?
I seem to see varying opinions about this. Any caveats ? This whole process
has been misery (I probably will be flamed for not giving enough info, but I
give up on fixing it. I need to re-install)
Any caveats about trying to go to W2K pro ?
Thanks for any advice,
Mike