f1/f2

When i turn my computer on it goes to something strange.3/4 of the way down the screen it says something to the efect of 0 found and at the bottom of the screen it says f1 to continue or f2 to set up after i hit continue(f1) it would take me to the screen to put in my password but my mouse and my keyboard were not working so I reinstalled vista and my drivers, I still am getting the same message when I start up. I am trying to download my antivirus or I would tell you exactly wht it says please and thank you for all your help

 

Are they PS\2 (the circular plug) or USB (the rectangular plug)

 

usb i got them working though

 

whoohoo!
may I ask what the problem\solution was?

 

I reinstalled my vista and drivers that fixed the problem with my mouse and keyboard but i lost all my data yet i am still getting that goofy message when i turn the puter on and I have to click F1 to gwt to my start up and all my old files are in an old section that is greek to me and I don't know how to get them from occuping space?! thank you again you have been a great help to me

 

no problem.
do you need help fixing that?

 

oh yes please i will be indebted to you

 

OK. so explain to me exactacly what is going on.
You have files taking up space, where?

 

not exactly sure... i installed without removing anything first

 

OK. So you have 2 windows installs at once.
OK not a problem!
Do me a favor? go to Start and click Run. Type in CMD and click run.
in the command prompt, type in "cd \" (without quotes)
now, type in "set>cpinfo.txt" (without quotes)
now, there will be a text file named cpinfo in your C:\ drive. Please upload that.

 

it said that they would be stored in a file called windows.old

 

ok. please upload that file from whereever it is saved.

 

no run on my start i am using vista

 

Oh OK.
Type CMD into the search bar then. But don't wait for anything to come up. just hit enter

 

okay it says c\users\ray

 

oh man. can you do it again? except instead of "set>cpinfo.txt" (without quotes) do "set>>cpinfo.txt" (without quotes)

 

it says enviroment variable... not defined

 

access denied

 

thats not good.
ok. how about this? go to your c:\ drive and list all the folders.

 

okay now what am I looking for?

 

just list the names of folders is there something called windows.old or winnt?

 

better yet, go to your C: drive, take a screenshot, and post that.

 

i found 2 listed as window.old

 

OK. windows.old is an old install of windows. you can delete that to free up disk space.
DO NOT delete the windows folder however!

 

i haven't a clue on how to take a screen shot

 

just the ones that say windows.old right?

 

prres the Print Screen button on your keyboard. Then paste it into paint.

 

this is going to take awhile so here we are at little west point lets go out and smoke a joint

 

oh lord do i want to permently delete these folder it is asking me that since they are too long for the recycle bin

 

i skipped the files if it questioned me but i freed up 60 gb

 

well there you go!
it was your old install. it copied everything from your hdd originally and put it in that folder.
anything else I can help you with?