Whew, I need some big help lol

[James McNabb]

Okay so heres the problem, My Uncle used to own one of those Lan Lounges, but did it in a very rich neighborhood to which everyone had a computer and such and basically no need for his computers, so he gave my mother one of the computers he had and since then, turned to poopoo, It got so bad we gave it to him to give to his computer person who said it was all fixed...and it came back worse. I can't start up anything and the screen is right next to me and it first prompts up something i've seen before

Start the computer up in
1. Normal
2. Safe mode
3. step by step confirmation
4. command promt only
5. Safe mode command prompt only


Then no matter what i choose i get this rather long message to which I'm retyping all the way out for you guys...

"There is an error in your CONFIG.SYS file on line 1

The following file is missing or corrupted: C:\Windows\SETVER.EXE
There is an error in your config.sys file on line 3

IDE/ATAPI CD-ROM Device Driver  Version 2.14   10:48:22 02/17/98
CD Drive #0 found on 170h port master device, V56DA
CD Drive #1 found on 170h port slave device, VQS0C


The following file is missing or currupted: C:\WINDOWS\IFSHLP.SYS
There is an error in your CONFIG.SYS file on line 8
The following file is missing or corrupted: C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS

The Following file is missing or currupted: C:\WINDOWS\DBLBUFF.SYS

The following file is missing or corrupted: C:\WINDOWS\IFSHLP.SYS

Warning: the high memory area (HMA) is not available.
Additional low memory (below 640k) will be used instead.
File not found
Cannot find WIN.COM, unable to continue loading Windows

C:\>"


anmd thats it, i don't really know what to do, I mean i'm good with like doing things on the computer like games and online and such, but i really have no idea what I'm doing with this. I normally turn to my brother but he is in England serving his time in the milatary, and i have no idea to what I'm doing. any help would be great.

-Jimmy

[Jimmy]

Also i forgot to mention under the 5 options i get this

"Warning: Windows has detected a registry/configuration error. Choose, Command Prompt only, and run SCANREG.

[Jimmy]

ugh lol i made another topic but i found this one and i tried what was offered but still have a problem...

I downloaded the boot file, i put it on a floppy. I put it on my broken computer and it brings up

LOAD FROM CDROM
LOAD FROM HARD DISK

i chose Cdrom and got to A:/> but when i type in sys c: it just says bad command of file name.  

What do i do? lol thanks for help guys.


thought id post here to see if ne1 sees it over here and wants to help out.

[2k dummy]

Back to the drawing board. Forget the boot floppy for the time being. Reboot the computer. When you get to the C:> prompt, do the following:
1. type ren config.sys config.old <enter>
2. type ren autoexec.bat autoexec.old<enter>
3. type scanreg/fix<enter>
Reboot the computer and post back the results.

[jimmy]

it let me get all the way down to scanreg/fix but then i got the bad command or file name

[2k dummy]

OK. Type cd\windows<enter> and repeat the scanreg/fix command.

[jimmy]

invalid directory

[Fed]

Nuke it  
Do a fresh install.

[utaker1987]

Lost me....try thinking of it as your talking to a newb....

[2k dummy]

Did you use \ or / when the typed the cd command? Type the command exactly as shown.

[utaker1987]

i did it with both with

/ i got Invalid switch - /windows

\ got invalid directory

[2k dummy]

Type dir/p/w and look through the listing. Directories will be listed in brackets like [WINDOWS]. See if the windows directory is in the list or has possibly been renamed. If nothing seems obvious, type dir/s win.* and see if can find win.com or any other file with win as part of the name.

[utaker1987]

Nope it said in the beginning that it couldn't find Win.com and i dont see anything in the dir that has win windows windo or anything else that would resemble windows in it.

[2k dummy]

Did you do the dir/s command?

[utaker1987]

Whoa, i did that and the screen just kept scrolling with all these files and such.