Does anyone know?

[Nemisis]

Hi guys, a quick question here about Registration files for Win 98SE.

On Friday i booted up my PC and half way through the boot up sequence i got that lovely blue screen we all love with an error message saying something along the lines of:

Windows found a bad registry file on start up and has replaced it with a recent backup file to fix the problem! Please hit Enter to reboot!


So i am thinking Oh well at least the damm thing has fixed itself for once!! RIGHT! WRONG


I hit enter as requested and it reboots but the exact sam thing happens again! So i hit Enter as requested and it reboots and the the exact same thing happens again!! So i hit Enter.......


You get the idea! So i get out my Windows start up disk and try a few things on that but to no avail!

Luckilly i have a duplicate copy of my system on my other hard drive but it is a duplicate that is 3 week out of date so needles to say all my emails and my IL2 install are gone but the Main drive and file can still be accessed from my duplicate drive so i can get anything i have lost but cant get that drive to boot up as i get the same message every time!

So my question is! can i replace the registry files for bootup from my D: Drive (backup) to my C: Drive (Main) to get it up and running again?

I have no idea which reg files are corrupted or need replaced nor do i have any idea how to find this out!! But i can get access to them as my D: drive backup can see the other copy of windows when it's up and running!

I can just recopy my back up to the main drive again! (probably easier!) but if i can get the other copy running again without this 4 hour operation i would rather do that!

Thanks in advance for any help and don't go scratching your heads for me to much as i can do the above fix if required!!

Nemisis

[Hammer]

I would boot off of the second drive and just run off of that. Copy your mail file from the first drive to the second, and reinstall IL2. Then when everything is running fine, copy the second drive to the first and then boot off of either you wish. You can reinstall IL2 either before or after you make the copy...

[Nemisis]

Yup Steel this is what i am going to do! I like to use the 80 Gig drive for my main drive as it has a faster access time which is noticable on my system compared to the originall 17 Gig drive i have as my back up!

Only problem is this morning after setting up my backup with IL2 and email files from the 80Gig drive my system now no longer recognises that my 80 gig drive is there!!! I have made no system changes that would cause this and believe that my Mobo/bios is about to quit on me in the very near future as more and more different system problems are appearing and dissapearing for no apparent reason!!

This is annoying as a fresh install of win98 was done on this system not a month ago and i have been very rigourous about what i reinstall on this Pc so as not to fill it up with junk i dont use!

But i will have a new Mobo and processor soon though and will hopefully have this up and running in the next 4 weeks so hopefully this will cure the current spate of system problems i have.

Nemisis

[Hammer]

have you done a virus scan?

does you bios recognize the 80 GB drive? if so, see if fdisk finds it as well, then try recreating your partition on it...

[Nemisis]

Yes Steel i am all Norton anti virused up with the latest virus definitions and have checked the system for viruses! as for the bios recognising the drive, officially no it doesn't recognise anything bigger than 33Gig but i had to install Seagates dynamic drive overlay program to get the system to recognise it when i installed it! this tells the system it is only 33Gig but on completion of bootup i get full access to the 80 Gig!

The problem seems to be intermittent at the moment, sometimes it's there and the next boot up it's not????

Oh well i'll just have to put up with it till i get this system upgraded (not long now )

Nemisis

[Hammer]

check your ide cables - make sure they are connected/seated firmly and there are no wires broken (from a pinch or otherwise). also make sure your power cable is firmly seated into the drive... and make sure you have master/slave set up correctly.