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ImTznU62
July 10th, 2002, 07:24 AM
I am running windows 98. When went to turn computer on it goes to C:\windows\>, it has never done this before. I can go into safe mode, but anything else I try puts me into DOS with above prompt. Any Ideas??? :( Any help is as always MUCH appreciated!
Rhettman5
July 10th, 2002, 08:30 AM
Did you try typing scanreg /restore from a dos prompt ? (note the space between the g and the / ) set the date to before the problem started and see if that clears it up...Rhett
Mosaic1
July 10th, 2002, 03:38 PM
If scanreg doesn't help try this. Boot to safe mode. Go to start>run and type msconfig. Choose selective startup.
Unselect Process autoexec.bat and config.sys
See if you can boot to Windows now.
ImTznU62
July 10th, 2002, 08:13 PM
Well I could not run scanreg/restore it kept coming up with bad command. BUT the msconfig option worked GREAT!!! Thank you so much! You guys are always the BEST!!! =)
b1kra
July 10th, 2002, 09:35 PM
Hi ImTznU62
The scanreg /restore has to be run in the DOS mode
Rhettman5
"Did you try typing scanreg /restore from a dos prompt ? (note the space between the g and the / ) set the date to before the problem started and see if that clears it up...Rhett"
Pick a date that was before you had the problem.
Good luck