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Help! My computer hates me....
So, I was playing a game, Princess Maker, that I downloaded from a website a while back and had played at least a couple of times before. And the game when I tried to start it up in DOS got stuck in a loop wherein it would try to restart, start princess maker, fail, and restart, and start princess maker, and fail, and restart and...well, you get the main idea. And so I stuck in my windows 98 bootup floppy, and deleted Princess Maker from DOS, figuring that this would solve the problem.
And then when you restarted the computer, it would show the compaq screen and then the windows splash screen and everyime it tried to do bootup checks it would fail, saying, C was an invalid drive, despite the fact that when you were running the computer off the Rescue Disk, it knew C was there and all my files were there too.
And so I finally figured out that part of the problem was that my hard drive's autoexec bat file had been corrupted, probably by a file that princess maker made, called autoexec.nai. And no one else has heard of this file, either, and it hadn't been there a couple of weeks ago, and so I delete it and copy over the "real" autoexec.bat from the rescue disk to the CD. Restart computer.
It's recognizing the C drive ok now that the autoexec file is fixed, but now it's looking for command.com, readme.txt, and extract.something-or-other. And so I copy all of those from the rescue disk to the hard drive, too. And restart the computer.
And it still can't find them. And I've forgotten enough DOS to not be able to tell it where to look for the files which it has, and cna't figure out where it's looking for the files in the first place, because the message is something like "can't find file - :\command.com" -- no letter telling me which volume it's looking in, nothing. And the files are there, and the computer still won't start up without these files, and
I'm going nuts because this was supposed to be my nonstressful weekend, and after it tells me it can't find those three files which are there, it tells me to insert Windows 98 Startup disk two, which I don't have and which I never had since my copy of Windows was installed at the factory and didn't come with Win98 on any kind of a disk, startup or otherwise. And so I am writing this on a friend's computer to see if any of you out there have any advice, because I need my computer, and took a break to write an essay because screaming at my computer had ceased to be theraputic anymore.
Help. Anyone? Computer people? I know there must be some of you out there.
So, I was playing a game, Princess Maker, that I downloaded from a website a while back and had played at least a couple of times before. And the game when I tried to start it up in DOS got stuck in a loop wherein it would try to restart, start princess maker, fail, and restart, and start princess maker, and fail, and restart and...well, you get the main idea. And so I stuck in my windows 98 bootup floppy, and deleted Princess Maker from DOS, figuring that this would solve the problem.
And then when you restarted the computer, it would show the compaq screen and then the windows splash screen and everyime it tried to do bootup checks it would fail, saying, C was an invalid drive, despite the fact that when you were running the computer off the Rescue Disk, it knew C was there and all my files were there too.
And so I finally figured out that part of the problem was that my hard drive's autoexec bat file had been corrupted, probably by a file that princess maker made, called autoexec.nai. And no one else has heard of this file, either, and it hadn't been there a couple of weeks ago, and so I delete it and copy over the "real" autoexec.bat from the rescue disk to the CD. Restart computer.
It's recognizing the C drive ok now that the autoexec file is fixed, but now it's looking for command.com, readme.txt, and extract.something-or-other. And so I copy all of those from the rescue disk to the hard drive, too. And restart the computer.
And it still can't find them. And I've forgotten enough DOS to not be able to tell it where to look for the files which it has, and cna't figure out where it's looking for the files in the first place, because the message is something like "can't find file - :\command.com" -- no letter telling me which volume it's looking in, nothing. And the files are there, and the computer still won't start up without these files, and
I'm going nuts because this was supposed to be my nonstressful weekend, and after it tells me it can't find those three files which are there, it tells me to insert Windows 98 Startup disk two, which I don't have and which I never had since my copy of Windows was installed at the factory and didn't come with Win98 on any kind of a disk, startup or otherwise. And so I am writing this on a friend's computer to see if any of you out there have any advice, because I need my computer, and took a break to write an essay because screaming at my computer had ceased to be theraputic anymore.
Help. Anyone? Computer people? I know there must be some of you out there.
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20/4/02 13:06 (UTC)If that's the case, technically you don't need the config.sys and autoexec.bat. Copy these files to a floppy (copy c:\config.sys a:) (copy c:\autoexec.bat a:) then delete the ones on your C drive. (del c:\config.sys) (del c:\autoexec.bat)
This eliminates the fact that something in the autoexec.bat or config.sys is causing the problem.
Next: since your drive seems to be missing the command interpreter, type the following command: (copy c:\windows\command\command.com c:\)
and reboot the computer. See if that helps.
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20/4/02 13:08 (UTC)(no subject)
21/4/02 09:48 (UTC)I love the fact that I live directly next to the computer lab.
THANK YOU!
21/4/02 10:17 (UTC)Re: THANK YOU!
21/4/02 10:25 (UTC)Not a problem ^..^
Though I'm surprised no one else replied O..o