The mystery has been solved. The HDD is fried. There is a simple diagnostic test which would have told me this on 8/14 if I had known of it's existence. The good news is I learned a lot about software that may be useful in the future. -- Al W

Recently my 4 year old desktop would not go into Windows and gave a white on blue message: "WHILE INITIALIZING DEVICE SYMTDI. Windows protection error. You need to restart your computer. System halted_"flashing underscore. I manually removed all SYM/NAV software. Same result without the note on...

Everything was going beautifully with my new set up (ME desktop + vista laptop) until I decided (God alone knows why) to perform a Windows Update on ME - all avenues of repair have failed so far - now onto a system restore - probably ending up with a full reinstall. Why did I bother with the...

Is it possible to install XP over ME without loosing files or data. Also, whenever I try to access my a: drive I always get do you want to format? I have tried yes and no and still cannot see what is on the disk. I have also swapped out the drive thinking that I may have a bad drive. Thank...

4 years ago I purchased a Dell computer with Microsoft word already installed. It crashed recently and I have had to re install the program. Before I can use it, I am being prompted to input the "CD key numbers from the yellow tab on the case" which I dont have any longer Any ideas how to activate...

my son returned from school with his computer which now won't boot. After choosing safe mode machine turns off. Boot disk doesn't help.Tried reinstall from cd - setup says it can't find windows 98 files (my windows me was an upgrade version) and won't reinstall. Any suggestions? Thanks.

Hello, I recently upgraded with 80 gig hard drive. because my old hard drive was runngin out of room.(30 gig) Now I have new comcast service, but the connectin drops me every 10 minutes, and I can't seem to fix it. I was thinking about reinstalling the windows, but when I double click on the...

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This might seem a stupid question. If I have a wireless modem set up in my home, what's to stop my next door neighbour from using it. If it works through the walls of my house surely it will transmit through to next door. Thanks

I had a multi-boot machine - I installed Win2K on a seperate HD (which died) now I have one drive with Windows ME on it. I don't want the "Please select which version of windows you want to boot into screen" to appear any more because the default option is win2k and I like to start the machine...

Hi, I recklessly re-installed Windows Me on my PC using my recovery CD-ROM. Now I can't access all my old programs and would like to return to my old setup if possible. A 5.46 GB WINOLD folder has been added to my present setup, and I guess I have to use this to return the machine to its original...

hi, I have to go from WinMe to Win2000Pro. i have to format the disk before i install Win2000. what's the proper procedure to retain control of the CD Drive, yet wipe the disk clean of all remainants of WinME? all help is apprecitated! Curt

I have recently ran into a problem installing winME. When I reach the end of setup, when the control panel and system is being configured, I receive Vxd, Kernel, and sometimes page fault errors. Setup then stops. I have an AMD Duron 1.83GHZ CPU, 40G western digital HD. Is there anyone who can...

WinME startup Scandskw has caused an error in Kernel32.dll. Got any ideas on this one?

I am hoping Noel Paton, Koldbear or someone much more savvy that me can provide some common sense and tech advice to prevant me from melting down my old Compaq Presario 5000 desktop. Backstory: My WinME operating system, as currently configured, is continually melting into increasingly...

Just had a very weird thing happen to my WinME system, and I need help to recover. I removed ZoneAlarm 6.0 in order to do a "Clean Install" of 6.1, as it was exhibiting setup problems, and wouldn't complete an upgrade either. When I re-booted after removing ZA and logged in, my profile was...

Hello, I have 2 hard drives installed.. I am running win98se on c drive. I am thinking of installing win me on drive d. I have 98 on drive d at this time. I am also networked to host computer running xp home, for internet purposes only. My question is, how much network configuring will I have to...

I have a 1.8GHz Pentium Dual-Core machine with 2GB RAM and two hard drives (each 320GB). The partitions (created with Acronis Disk Director 10) are configured as follows: Drive 0 C: 240GB NTFS, Vista installed J: 80GB FAT32, empty but reserved for WinME (this partition was set to active before...

Unable to start Windows ME, used startup disk but unable to start in safemode, I followed help directions on startup disk but nothing will get it started. When I did a directory of C drive no windows directory listed. Also tried to use restore disk but I get the message this program must be...