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Microsoft => Microsoft DOS => Topic started by: troubled comp user on August 11, 2004, 12:52:58 PM
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OK i have an old 92 gateway with wut i think is the old version of ms dos n e ways..i was deleting some stuff on it and i think i deleted the wrong thing it was "microsoft publisher" and after i deleted all the files it asked me to restart so i did. when i did windows didnt start so i used my boot disk and it didnt help at all windows still didnt start so i came on this site and i looked for some things and i tryed them like the undelete thng it says that it was a bad command or something like that and so i tryed the GUI=1 thing and it went to te windows 98 loading screen but then it just gos back to the boot disk thing( when i took it out and restarted the comp it dosnt do a thing) it gose to an options screen with the safe mode on it and it says to use the command prompt option and use "scanreg" so i did and it dosent do n e thing and if i use safe mode or normal it gose to the windows 98 loading screen for about 5 mins then it gose back into the ms dos with a message "invalid media type drive C: abort retry,fail" every time. i want to erase every thing on my computer and reinstall windows with a fresh start but i dont know how and i dont know if im using the undelete thing right. if u can will u plz help out a guy in need
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ok win98 boot disk load it restart-pc on the a:\ cd windows enter this will take you to c:\>type this command scanreg/restore and chose the last good cab file...try it.
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i have a dell with home xp on it...whenever i turn it on it loads microsoft and restarts..i will put the xp disc in and like he said it willl take me to a safe mode screen and i tried all options for it but it didnt work
it stopped working when we downloaded some windows updates and it sed to restart for them to work
help me
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every time i try and do something like ur suggestion it always says "invalid media type reading drive C" dose this mean i dont have drive C? plz help