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10996	2001-04-07 08:49:00	Our PIII 500 running Win 98 has been unstable for a few weeks, then last weekend it throw a woobly and caused the following problems: 1: Invalid long file name on scandisk. 2: Regestry errors- backed up. 3: Norton Antivirus crashes on startup (Norton crashed during an update, and I was meaning to uninstall and reinstall it....) 4: repeated 1-3. 5: managed to get it into safe mode. 6. Explorer is causeing errors and crashing. 7. When trying to restart normally there are corrpted DLL's etc. And explorer crashes. What I have done. I have managed to get Scandisk running off the win 98 cd which fixed a heap of crosslink files, wrong file sizes and corrupted files. Due to the corrupted DLL files, I decided it would pay to reinstall windows. I printed out the reinstall windows 98 to a new folder and followed the steps. However ater installing 6% a SUV(?) crashed and now setup doesn't get past installing the install wizard. Any sugesstions? NB the user files are backed up. Also I can't get into windows now as I haven't renamed the msdos, autoexcex.bat and config.sys back. It starts up and shuts down. Thanks in advance.	Guest (0)
10997	2001-04-08 06:18:00	Hello Nicholas I feel you will save yourself a lot of headaches if you just reformat and start again from scratch. If you do manage to reload Windows from your present situation, you will be extremely fortunate if you don't have any problems from the corruptions on your system. If you have Data you must keep, remove your harddrive and install as a slave device on a friends PC, you should be able to access any data you wish to keep,or any PC shop should be able to do it for you at a nominal cost(check first) Alan	Guest (0)
10998	2001-04-09 22:36:00	I had similar problems when trying to upgrade from 95 to 98 - the installation would fall over at the same place each time. Then I tried a full install, but the installation told me there was already a copy of Windows, and I needed to upgrade, not install new. I was reluctant to format & start from scratch as that meant losing a lot of valuable stuff, and I had neither time nor inclination to do major backups of absolutely everything. My cure was quite simple - I used DOS to rename & hide the existing 'Windows' folder. This fooled the computer into thinking that there was no exisiting version of Windows and it then installed quite happily. I was then able to pick some of the bits out of the original Windows folder, but I did have to reinstall all my other software again.	Guest (0)
10999	2001-04-10 00:26:00	Hi, Thanks for you help, I gave up and took it into the shop. 2 hours later and some new RAM (I hate to think the cost of that...). note WIN.com tips off the install wizard that there is another version of windows on the computer. I didn't have a problem with it complaining that windows was allready on the computer. Thanks again Nicholas	Guest (0)
11000	2001-04-10 05:41:00	At least you should have a nice stable machine now, should be only around $100.00 fitted for an extra 64MB PCI 133MHz SDRam. Alan	Guest (0)
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