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Tom Brady
April 28th, 2004, 01:21 AM
I have been having so many problems with Win98SE thtat I thought I would cut the Gordian Knot, as it were. and just re-install Windows. Bad move!

I booted from the disk I had made previously, and ran the Setup.exe from the Win98 CD. Everything appeared to be going along normally, and everything appeared to be copied, etc. When the final message appeared that the computer had to be re-booted, everything locked up. I have tried to re-boot, re-install, and everything else I can think of, but nothing seems to work.

If I removed the Windows directory entirely, by booting into DOS, and deleting the directory, could I then re-boot from the start-up disk and successfully re-install Windows? I realize I would lose my desktop settings, but, at this point, so what!

Any suggestions, before I put my foot through the monitor in frustration?
Tom Brady
Murf
April 28th, 2004, 02:16 AM
Deleting the directory is not a good idea.

Appears a hardware conflict.

1. Boot with the bootdisk and get into SETUP (usually the DELETE key on the 1st screen)

2. In SETUP go thru the different menu items and make sure that anti-visus is not enabled, if it is disable it.

3. Save and Exit, let it reboot without the bootdisk and after the 1st boot screen start tapping the F8 key a menu will come up, select SAFE MODE. Let us know if you can get into safe mode.
Tom Brady
April 28th, 2004, 03:52 PM
3. Save and Exit, let it reboot without the bootdisk and after the 1st boot screen start tapping the F8 key a menu will come up, select SAFE MODE. Let us know if you can get into safe mode.

I'm able to boot into the Safe Mode (although in 98 you hold the Ctrl key, not the F8 key (that's for 95). Once in Safe Mode, I can't find any conflicts. I have removed my ant-virus program, my firewall,. SpyBot, and AdAware (I intend to put them back if I ever get this fixed), but nothing helps. When I boot up, the computer locks while loading drivers, but I can't tell which driver it's loading when it stops.

I've tried to boot while creating a bootlog, but that doesn't seem to work; no log is created.

Would installing Windows in a different directory help?

Tom Brady