Hello. I want to reformat my PC because I am giving it to my mother plus it is getting old (maybe 5yrs) and running slow. I set BIOS to boot from disk first but as soon as I see something that says something like "windows setup" I get this message...."file\i386\ntkrnlmp.exe could not be loaded. error code is 1024". I have also recently not been able to pull up a DOS prompt from run, cmd.
"C:WINDOWS\system32\command.com
C:WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\AUTOEXEC.NT. The system file is not suitable for running MS_DOS & Microsoft Windows applications. Choose 'Close' to terminate the application"
I run CA Internet security suite (cablevision) but as I was typing this I got a popup saying that like 54 threats were removed & 157,839 attempts to connect to my computer were blocked. I have a wired network setup in my home including 2 PCs & an Xbox.
Any ideas what is going on here?