boot up probs please help

please help, tell me what to do


I was following a link for pandasoftware and while the system was scanning the whole pc froze resulting in me having to reboot....on reboot the following appeared on the screen...
Microsoft Windows 98 Start up Menu
1 Normal
2 Logged (\BOOTLOG.TXT)
3 Safe Mode
4 Step-by-step confirmation
5 Command prompt only (which it highlighted))
6 Safe mode command prompt only

Warning:- Windows has detected a registry/configuration error. Choose, Command prompt only, and run SCANREG.

The following file is missing or corrupted
C:\WINDOWS\HIMEN.SYS
C:\WINDOWS\DBLBUFF.SYS
C:\WINDOWS\IFSHLP.SYS
Cannot find WIN.COM, unable to continue loading windows

PLEASE HELP ME SORT THIS, IM ONLY HERE FOR A FEW MORE DAYS AND IVE GOTTA SORT IT BEFORE I GO HOME

this forum seems a more appropriate place for this thread

 

i cant afford to get anything wrong, or mess it up further. its not my pc and i dont wanna lose their info stored on this pc, which of the above do you reckon will be the best? im scared of messing things up big style.

 

This bit dont work, Choose, Command prompt only, and run SCANREG.It comes up with Bad command or file name.

 

but it wont let me scanreg.... it says C:\ (so i type in) SCANREG and hit enter and it comes back about bad command.... am i typing it wrong?

 

sounds like a virus knocked this pc out. Your best bet would be to put another drive in there (temporary), load windows on it and put a virus scanner on it and then scan the OLD drive. Once it's clean, take the temporary drive out and reload windows over top of the current installation. During the installation it will prompt you that c:\windows already exists and it will display a new directory to install windows too (C:\windows.000) . DO NOT INSTALL IT TO THAT DIRECTORY. Remove the ".000" so it reads C:\windows and hit ok. Hit ok again on the error box and let windows install normally. You will probably need the cd key so have it handy for all of this.

 

Thanx kodo, i thought it was something i had done, but it just happened and it had already detected 2 netsky viruses.
this pc has 2 hard drive, C which is naffed now and D which is used to store info on....could i use D and put windows 98 on it? if so how do i go about doin it? because when the pc boots it comes up with the screen that gives me options as posted before, but dont work, comes up with bad file or something.
Thanx for the help

 

You'll have to swap the drives: C for D so that D is the temporary C drive. Then you can install windows to it.

 

I'm having somewhat of the same problem... I have a computer that went kaput yesterday, but when I put in a different hard drive to get it going again, it says there is no fixed hard drive and won't let me fdisk or format. Can anyone help?

 

Would love to help you! however, it makes it more difficult to do so while in someone elses thread. Please start a new thread stating your problem so we can keep track of it easier
Welcome to Major Geeks

 

do i need to move the jumpers so that D is (set as C was before)? and when i install 98 onto the new C Drive (previously D) will it erase the info that is already stored on it, like pictures etc? how will i install windows onto the new drive, do i put the cd in the cd drive and boot making sure 1st boot option is cd drive?

 

Yes, you need to jumper the temporary drive. For the time being I would just disconnect the other drive, so that all that shows up is the drive with the new Windows installation.

• Disconnect the C:\ drive, and jumper the D:\ drive to Master.
• When installing Windows to the new drive, DO NOT FORMAT. This way you can still keep the other data on this drive.
• Load the Antivirus on the new installation as Kodo mentioned and then power down to connect the old drive. This time you want to jumper it to Slave.
• Power up and run the antivirus scan on the old drive, and then please post the results.

Once you have the results then we can figure out where to go from there

 

probs again, i tried to save avast from majorgeeks onto a floppy and its too big, ive tried to zip it using winzip and its still too big. for me to put on an antivirus, so that i can scan the old drive, i need something small enough to fit on a floppy disk. any ideas? i dont have a cd rw on the pc im using to post threads so that i can fix the other pc

 

thats not working, i just wanna know if theres a way of copying an antivirus program onto a floppy disk.

 

use WINRAR, you can span across floppies with it. So if a file is 4MB, you can compress it and it will parse it out to 3 different floppy disks. Then you can extract it on the machine using the set of disks. WinRAR must also be installed on the target machine.

 

just swapped D to master i assume when i switch on it will detect that there is no operating system and will prompt me to install it, am i correct kodo?

 

scanreg\restore should read scanreg /restore. Note space after scanreg and forward slash / not backward slash \. Also try typing in scanreg /? for help. Note space after scanreg, forward slash and question mark. Bazza

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cant do scanreg thing now, ive swapped C drive to slave and disconnected it, and put D Drive to master and connected.... D Drive has no o/s how do i put an o/s on it, ive booted up with 98 cd in cd drive but it says invalid system disk, replace the disk and press any key. wot do i do

 

sorted that bit, silly me forgot the start up floppy will keep you posted

 

ive installed win98 and av, how do i determin what the modem is and how do i install it? because i need to get online then i can update the virus defs before i scan the old drive

thanx in advance

 

sorted that bit too, scanned and no viruses were found, now im reinstalling windows 98 over windows 98 on the C Drive, which is master, and putting D Drive back as an extra storage drive......

How do i uninstall windows 98 off D Drive? Please help.

 

Once you put the original drive in the primary position so that it boots and not the temporary install , you need only find the windows directory on the temporary drive and delete it.

I'm glad to see that you've figured quite a bit out on your own..

 

i aint ive got the pc booting from the C Drive again, but all my proggies aint there anymore, although if i double click my computer> C Drive > Program Files there all there, have i done something wrong?

 

ive gone to my computer> D Drive > found the windows folder and clicked on delete.... it says the windows folder is too big for the recycle bin, do you want to permanently delete it? i guess i should say yes..... please confirm.

 

i thought i would move this thread back towards the top of the list, cos ive only got another day and few hours left to sort this pc before i go home. please help

 

come on peeps dont leave me now! help