Grey screen on login, new device found/unknown

[Steveybaby]

Hi,

When I turn the power on, it logs in to a grey screen,
(doesnt load up to the desktop) and "Add a device" pops up
saying it has found a device, but doesnt say what device
it is. I am thinking it might be the graphics card or
motherboard?? (Coz it goes grey and goes into 640x480
mode). I try to put the cds in for the comp. to find the
drivers, but windows refuses to search the CD drive, the
CD drive doesnt even show on the file source list, only
the hard-drives the A:\ drive and a couple of others.


I also dont have the Windows ME disk, as a copy of it is
meant to be on the hard-disk. As for the emergency restore
floppy disk, it no longer works as I have upgraded my
computer, and the last time I used it it made things 10x
worse! (the disk didnt really recognise any of the new
hardware so gave up i guess!)

It must have happened when I moved alot of files from C:\
to another folder and also C:\WINDOWS to another folder
(as I was trying to clear my computer out abit and would
have thought all important files would belong to a
folder!) However I managed to get into DOS and put
everything back to their respective folders.

Safe mode etc doesnt work, gets to the grey screen and
nothing.

I do have the cd's for the graphics card, motherboard etc,
but because it doesnt say what device its found, and the
reason why device manger wont attempt to read anything but
the A:\ drive, there doesnt seem that there is alot I can
do in this device found screen! I can press CTRL+Alt+Del
to show what progs are running, but nothing is displayed.

Please help!

Thanks in advance,

Steve

[Raptor]

Can you not move C: Windows back to see if that solves your problem?

Never remove or move Windows or system files!

[merlin_2]

re-boot pc place the wime boot floppy in the drive...a:\> scanreg/fix or scanreg/restore        commands you can try..

[Steveybaby]

Well the fact is I was trying to clear out my hard-drive as its almost full although i cant really see why, but there are all these loose stand alone files in the C:\ and C:\windows folders.

Surely they should be put into an actual folder?

Anyways some plank on here told me if I didnt know what a file did, I should move it into another folder and re-boot, if you dont get any probs then the file is just a waste of space. so thats what i did.

I did manage to get into DOS and moved back the files into the C: folder and C:\windows folder respectively, which in theory would make things work again, you would have thought! the only files i cant move back are 2 files which have a filesize of 0KB. DOS doesnt want to copy them across, presumeably because it thinks it cant copy 0KB.

Dont have a bootup disk. Is there any way of making one through DOS?

[Raptor]

Anyways some plank on here told me if I didnt know what a file did, I should move it into another folder and re-boot, if you dont get any probs then the file is just a waste of space. so thats what i did.

Not all files are required to boot. If you wish to know what a file does, google for it.

[merlin_2]

http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm or go into the bios  del key normally on boot and change the boot sequence to ...boot from cdrom...then load the cd install disk..done..

[Steveybaby]

 

Thanks for the help chaps!