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December 27th, 1999 23:00

AHH, PLEASE READ! -- Startup Errors.

[In the error listed below (section A) I had earlier.] Now, I decided to put the Windows Start-up disk into my computer, and I completly reinstalled Windows 98, Now, after I have installed windows, I restarted, again. SAME PROBLEM, i'm still prompted with the MW1 prompt! I CANT GET IT TO GO AWAY!
HELP!



-- SECTION A --

" Just a bit ago, I was going through some of my old floppy-disks, when I found one that had a game on it (mechwarrior 1) so, I tried to open it, I then recieved an error saything this "This program requires MSDOS to run, would you like the shortcut to always open this file in MSDOS mode?" So, I clicked YES. Next thing I know, the computer restarts. It asks me to insert a disk into the A-Drive, and to press any key to continue... So, I put the Disk in, and hit enter. It opened the program, but then I got an error about the program (since it doesnt work), so, it told me to remove the disk, and restart the computer -- I did. However, once I restarted the computer, it asked me again for the disk, not wanting to have to go through the error thing again, I hit A (abort), it then said that there was an error, and that it will restart. Once again, it went through all the startup checks, but then prompted me again!! EVERYTHING I DO RESULTS IN THIS COMPUTER TRYING TO RUN THIS PROGRAM! I've tried everything! This computer has restarted about 20 times, and I cant figure it out.... HELP!

oh, its a Dell Dimension XPS R400 . "

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    Posted December 28th, 1999 00:00

    Most likely when you reinstalled windows 98 you did not re format your hard-drive. If you reinstalled windows 98 without reformatting your hard-drive the configuration files are still the same. If you have questions on how to format the drive, E-mail me at Dustin6000@aol.com. Or if you want, I could try and diagnose the problem via e-mail. You can goto the startmenu, click run, then type in sysedit. It will bring up a number of files in a window. Copy the contents of config.sys, and autoexec.bat into an e-mail. Also about the first 20 lines of win.ini, and system.ini, into and e-mail and send them to me.

    -Dustin
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    Posted December 28th, 1999 03:00

    MDE wrote:
    - [In the error listed below (section A) I had
    - earlier.] Now, I decided to put the Windows Start-up
    - disk into my computer, and I completly reinstalled
    - Windows 98, Now, after I have installed windows, I
    - restarted, again. SAME PROBLEM, i'm still prompted
    - with the MW1 prompt! I CANT GET IT TO GO AWAY!
    - HELP!
    The solution is relatively simple and should be straightforward. First I want you to go to your ailing system and start it and hold the Ctrl key down, until you get to the startup menu. Choose Safe Mode command prompt only. At the C:\> type "edit config.sys" (without the quotes) and write down everything you see. Then exit out and back at C:\> type "autoexec.bat" again w/o quotes.
    Post this back here in this thread and I will help you get rid of that loop.































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