help!!

[coolguy23]

i'm using my school's computer cuz my computer got ****ed!!! whenever i turn it on, it goes past the windows 98 logo part and shows my mouse...them i get all these illegal error and when i click close on all of them i see nothing but my mouse...how can i fix this?

how would i reinstall windows 98? (i have the cd)

can i recover my files without losing them?

thanks alot if you can help :)

[RedHat]

You could re-install windows, by just putting the CD in the drive, when starting up.

If this doesn't work, you should press F8 while starting up your system (before WIN98 logo apears). Then you should receive some sort of DOS-menu, and take the ms-dos option.
*put in the win98 CD*
In DOS, should go to the CD drive and run SETUP

Normaly, you don't lose your files. (Only files that windows uses will be overwritten)

I ain't sure about all that, but the last time that my PC crashed very hard, I did it that way.

good luck

[akashik]

Erm,

That does depend somewhat on what the CD he mentions actually is. For example, my Compaq laptop has a CD with Windows on it. It's also a recovery disk though. Putting that in won't retain my files. It does a c:\format before reinstalling windows back to 'show-room' condition.

Greg Moore

[RedHat]

could be, but even if akashik is right, there's a solution.

You can split up your disk with fdisk (dos program), and make an backup of your files on the created disk. That way, windows can format your C-disk, and keep an back-up on the D-disk that you created with Fdisk.

[coolguy23]

thanks for all the help but i just fixed it by going through safe mode and deleting some ---- and rebooting and now it's all fixed :) i'm soo happy!!!

[Coolin]

Originally posted by coolguy23
thanks for all the help but i just fixed it by going through safe mode and deleting some ---- and rebooting and now it's all fixed :) i'm soo happy!!! Wow, that's a really wierd way to fix Windows. I never knew you could do that! What kind of files did you delete?

[coolguy23]

Originally posted by Coolin

Originally posted by coolguy23
thanks for all the help but i just fixed it by going through safe mode and deleting some ---- and rebooting and now it's all fixed :) i'm soo happy!!! Wow, that's a really wierd way to fix Windows. I never knew you could do that! What kind of files did you delete?

yes i know...i was surprised too! ;)
well i just uninstalled a couple of programs in safe mode and cheked the drives for errors and rebooted and it was all fixed! :)

[LeX]

I never quite understood Window's "Safe Mode"... what's it supposed to do? (or not do?)

One thing I know for sure is that in safe mode your resolution becomes something like 640x480, really bad.

[gyrbo]

Originally posted by LeX
I never quite understood Window's "Safe Mode"... what's it supposed to do? (or not do?)

One thing I know for sure is that in safe mode your resolution becomes something like 640x480, really bad.
In safe mode windows load as few drivers as posible. At that way you can solve problem related to drivers.

[LeX]

Ohh... thanx! :)

Is safe mode Windows more stable? *lol*

[gyrbo]

yep, but you can't do anything without drivers :p

[Epgs]

hey i have had to do that before