(I'd be inclined to back up info and proggie-install-sets onto the new
drive and do a fresh install onto the old one, but YMMV.)

After removing the new drive, boot from an EBD floppy.

(if you haven't got an EBD floppy, make one in Windows from
ControlPanel/AddRemoveSoftware|StartupDisk then remove the new drive (or
fiddle the master/slave jumpers, whatever works for you... curious, you
have both drives on the same cable?)

A:\ SCANDISK C: (might as well)

A:\ SCANREG /RESTORE
and pick a date from before you tried to update Norton; if none are
available then type

A:\ SCANREG /FIX

There's a possibility you can boot now after removing the diskette.



Rick

(Still to come: booting using progman.exe and running a System Restore..
and if that doesn't work, doing a Refresh Install)




Mark Garron wrote:
I have run into a series of hard drive problems that I have tried to
fix. I could not run scandisk through start up of my system. I came to
the conclusion that my best tactic was to buy a new hard drive and
install a clean install of windows me. I connect the old drive that I am

having troubles as a slave and booted on the new drive. I ran scan disk
and this seemed to clean up the problems. I booted on the old hard
drive. I then tried to upgrade my copy of Norton anti virus in order
make sure my problems were not caused by a virus. This did not work . I
could not install the upgrade. I decided that I better boot the new hard

drive with the old drive as a slave again. I installed the new version
of Norton anit virus and ran a scan of both my drives. I lot of spy ware

came up and I deleted all that i could. I then reboot trying to use the
old drive and could not. I get a windows protection fault. I can not
boot in safe mode either. I would guess that I have problems with the
registry. How can I fix this? I can still boot using the new drive with
the old drive as a slave. How can I run a diagnoistic and repair on the
registry of a slave drive? If this can't be done perhaps I should look
at building up a new registry on the new drive.. I do not want to
reinstall all my software as this is very inpractical. What is the
procedure in copying programs over one at a time so that all components
and keys are installed? I can not boot using a floppy as I don't have a
floppy drive. Is there any repair feature on the WindowsME install disk?

Thanks for any help!

Mark

BTW I posted this on another thread but we all got off the subject.

To follow up I have the following further info.

I have run scandisk (in thorough mode) on the the drive.

The drive is 40 MB

the syetem is an IBM 6300-32E

I can boot with the OEM windows install CD to a DOS prompt.

My ultimate goal is for my system to function as it was prior to the
problem.

I am not married to any one solution. If I need to migrate to a new
drive I will but I don't know how to migrate the registry.

If I try to recover the old hard drive(which sounds like the easy way) I
don't know how to restore my registry to an earier date considering I
can't boot in safe mode.

Please do not suggest I boot in safe mode. I can't boot in safe mode.
This IS THE PROBLEM. IF I COULD FIGURE OUT HOW TO BOOT IN SAFE MODE THEN
I WOULD HAVE NO PROBLEM.