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can not boot.
I've been taking care of my pc health without a doctor's diploma. I'm not
even a nurse. I've been doing good so far by information I find when I google whatever problem I am trying to solve. Sometimes I get lucky , sometimes takes a while , long while to find the right solution... I wish I knew about this place. I found you guys as I wasresearching my current problem and started to read and read and , boy oh boy, I forgot my problem . I learned more in a couple of thread than all the research I've done in my pc's life. Unfortunatelly, I do have a problem and desperation is leading my life. I deleted boot files by accident and do not have a working a: drive to boot from with my startup floppy. I am happy with ME but all this about not getting support anymore has been bothering me. So I started reading up on how to upgrade to XP since I am going to perform the OS change surgery myself and did not want to make any mistake... so much for that...... mistake happened before surgery and don't ask how I happened to have my boot up floopy inside a: drive and while doing some file cleaning as part of my preparing for upgrade I deleted the essentials boot files.. I was trying out this "easycleaner" application and one of it's features deletes duplicate files and you guessed it, boot up floppy in a: drive and, of course , the originals in c: drive , "easycleaner" opted for the ones in c: and now I have no boot up files on c: and my pc has not been able to recognize a: drive for quite a while so I am DOOMED /// or am I? I am confident someone here will bring me back. Do not understand how my pc can read a: drive, yet , here comes "easycleaner" and had no problem picking up those files in the floppy. Sorry to make long story, .... please help me . don't worry about making long story... I follow word by word if you give me hope... I 've clumpsy before but now I've really done it. I got to this newsgroup while reading about some flash drive booting approach but Im afraid it was little to hard to understand and....... neveer mind , just tell me what to do , Por Favor. Ricardo |
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Ricardo,
Hang in there. There are solutions for your situation and someone in this newsgroup will get back to you. Ed "rpmsfpr" wrote in message ... I've been taking care of my pc health without a doctor's diploma. I'm not even a nurse. I've been doing good so far by information I find when I google whatever problem I am trying to solve. Sometimes I get lucky , sometimes takes a while , long while to find the right solution... I wish I knew about this place. I found you guys as I wasresearching my current problem and started to read and read and , boy oh boy, I forgot my problem .. I learned more in a couple of thread than all the research I've done in my pc's life. Unfortunatelly, I do have a problem and desperation is leading my life. I deleted boot files by accident and do not have a working a: drive to boot from with my startup floppy. I am happy with ME but all this about not getting support anymore has been bothering me. So I started reading up on how to upgrade to XP since I am going to perform the OS change surgery myself and did not want to make any mistake... so much for that...... mistake happened before surgery and don't ask how I happened to have my boot up floopy inside a: drive and while doing some file cleaning as part of my preparing for upgrade I deleted the essentials boot files.. I was trying out this "easycleaner" application and one of it's features deletes duplicate files and you guessed it, boot up floppy in a: drive and, of course , the originals in c: drive , "easycleaner" opted for the ones in c: and now I have no boot up files on c: and my pc has not been able to recognize a: drive for quite a while so I am DOOMED /// or am I? I am confident someone here will bring me back. Do not understand how my pc can read a: drive, yet , here comes "easycleaner" and had no problem picking up those files in the floppy. Sorry to make long story, .... please help me . don't worry about making long story... I follow word by word if you give me hope... I 've clumpsy before but now I've really done it. I got to this newsgroup while reading about some flash drive booting approach but Im afraid it was little to hard to understand and....... neveer mind , just tell me what to do , Por Favor. Ricardo |
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Ricardo, not exactly clear as to what you have and have not got, but to
summarise *my* take of your report :- 1) you can't boot your C: drive into WinMe 2) your A: drive isn't functioning. 3) your essential 'boot files' are either missing from your C: drive and/or your floppy start-up disk. (Not quite sure how you know for certain that the 'boot files' are missing from your C: drive if you can't 'see it', apparently) Can you verify the above and then we may be able to make some headway. And, with the cost of a replacement floppy drive being so low, I would suggest you first start by fitting a new one (or at least find out why the old one doesn't work) - you're going to need. Mart "rpmsfpr" wrote in message ... I've been taking care of my pc health without a doctor's diploma. I'm not even a nurse. I've been doing good so far by information I find when I google whatever problem I am trying to solve. Sometimes I get lucky , sometimes takes a while , long while to find the right solution... I wish I knew about this place. I found you guys as I wasresearching my current problem and started to read and read and , boy oh boy, I forgot my problem . I learned more in a couple of thread than all the research I've done in my pc's life. Unfortunatelly, I do have a problem and desperation is leading my life. I deleted boot files by accident and do not have a working a: drive to boot from with my startup floppy. I am happy with ME but all this about not getting support anymore has been bothering me. So I started reading up on how to upgrade to XP since I am going to perform the OS change surgery myself and did not want to make any mistake... so much for that...... mistake happened before surgery and don't ask how I happened to have my boot up floopy inside a: drive and while doing some file cleaning as part of my preparing for upgrade I deleted the essentials boot files.. I was trying out this "easycleaner" application and one of it's features deletes duplicate files and you guessed it, boot up floppy in a: drive and, of course , the originals in c: drive , "easycleaner" opted for the ones in c: and now I have no boot up files on c: and my pc has not been able to recognize a: drive for quite a while so I am DOOMED /// or am I? I am confident someone here will bring me back. Do not understand how my pc can read a: drive, yet , here comes "easycleaner" and had no problem picking up those files in the floppy. Sorry to make long story, .... please help me . don't worry about making long story... I follow word by word if you give me hope... I 've clumpsy before but now I've really done it. I got to this newsgroup while reading about some flash drive booting approach but Im afraid it was little to hard to understand and....... neveer mind , just tell me what to do , Por Favor. Ricardo |
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Ricardo,
Have you attempted to boot into Safe Mode? It was *my* take that your A:\ is still working, you just boogered the boot floppy. If you have access to the Net from another machine, there are a number of places on the Net that you can download an Me boot disk.....just do a Google search. Is there a 'recovery' feature for deleted files in the 'easy cleaner' app? If so, try it...if it works, never use it again. Heirloom, old and needs more details p.s. in your next post, please include: Did you attempt the XP install? If so, how far did you get? How many HD's and/or virtual drives (partitions) "Mart" wrote in message ... Ricardo, not exactly clear as to what you have and have not got, but to summarise *my* take of your report :- 1) you can't boot your C: drive into WinMe 2) your A: drive isn't functioning. 3) your essential 'boot files' are either missing from your C: drive and/or your floppy start-up disk. (Not quite sure how you know for certain that the 'boot files' are missing from your C: drive if you can't 'see it', apparently) Can you verify the above and then we may be able to make some headway. And, with the cost of a replacement floppy drive being so low, I would suggest you first start by fitting a new one (or at least find out why the old one doesn't work) - you're going to need. Mart "rpmsfpr" wrote in message ... I've been taking care of my pc health without a doctor's diploma. I'm not even a nurse. I've been doing good so far by information I find when I google whatever problem I am trying to solve. Sometimes I get lucky , sometimes takes a while , long while to find the right solution... I wish I knew about this place. I found you guys as I wasresearching my current problem and started to read and read and , boy oh boy, I forgot my problem . I learned more in a couple of thread than all the research I've done in my pc's life. Unfortunatelly, I do have a problem and desperation is leading my life. I deleted boot files by accident and do not have a working a: drive to boot from with my startup floppy. I am happy with ME but all this about not getting support anymore has been bothering me. So I started reading up on how to upgrade to XP since I am going to perform the OS change surgery myself and did not want to make any mistake... so much for that...... mistake happened before surgery and don't ask how I happened to have my boot up floopy inside a: drive and while doing some file cleaning as part of my preparing for upgrade I deleted the essentials boot files.. I was trying out this "easycleaner" application and one of it's features deletes duplicate files and you guessed it, boot up floppy in a: drive and, of course , the originals in c: drive , "easycleaner" opted for the ones in c: and now I have no boot up files on c: and my pc has not been able to recognize a: drive for quite a while so I am DOOMED /// or am I? I am confident someone here will bring me back. Do not understand how my pc can read a: drive, yet , here comes "easycleaner" and had no problem picking up those files in the floppy. Sorry to make long story, .... please help me . don't worry about making long story... I follow word by word if you give me hope... I 've clumpsy before but now I've really done it. I got to this newsgroup while reading about some flash drive booting approach but Im afraid it was little to hard to understand and....... neveer mind , just tell me what to do , Por Favor. Ricardo |
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Hi HL, it was a long (verbose) post but I read :-
.. and do not have a working a: drive to boot from with my startup floppy. and ... my pc has not been able to recognize a: drive for quite a while. but Ricardo 'appears' to contradict himself with :- Do not understand how my pc can read a: drive, yet , here comes "easycleaner" and had no problem picking up those files in the floppy. especially when .. and don't ask how I happened to have my boot up floopy inside a: drive So I won't ask - but I am confused g Mart "Heirloom" wrote in message ... Ricardo, Have you attempted to boot into Safe Mode? It was *my* take that your A:\ is still working, you just boogered the boot floppy. If you have access to the Net from another machine, there are a number of places on the Net that you can download an Me boot disk.....just do a Google search. Is there a 'recovery' feature for deleted files in the 'easy cleaner' app? If so, try it...if it works, never use it again. Heirloom, old and needs more details p.s. in your next post, please include: Did you attempt the XP install? If so, how far did you get? How many HD's and/or virtual drives (partitions) "Mart" wrote in message ... Ricardo, not exactly clear as to what you have and have not got, but to summarise *my* take of your report :- 1) you can't boot your C: drive into WinMe 2) your A: drive isn't functioning. 3) your essential 'boot files' are either missing from your C: drive and/or your floppy start-up disk. (Not quite sure how you know for certain that the 'boot files' are missing from your C: drive if you can't 'see it', apparently) Can you verify the above and then we may be able to make some headway. And, with the cost of a replacement floppy drive being so low, I would suggest you first start by fitting a new one (or at least find out why the old one doesn't work) - you're going to need. Mart "rpmsfpr" wrote in message ... I've been taking care of my pc health without a doctor's diploma. I'm not even a nurse. I've been doing good so far by information I find when I google whatever problem I am trying to solve. Sometimes I get lucky , sometimes takes a while , long while to find the right solution... I wish I knew about this place. I found you guys as I wasresearching my current problem and started to read and read and , boy oh boy, I forgot my problem . I learned more in a couple of thread than all the research I've done in my pc's life. Unfortunatelly, I do have a problem and desperation is leading my life. I deleted boot files by accident and do not have a working a: drive to boot from with my startup floppy. I am happy with ME but all this about not getting support anymore has been bothering me. So I started reading up on how to upgrade to XP since I am going to perform the OS change surgery myself and did not want to make any mistake... so much for that...... mistake happened before surgery and don't ask how I happened to have my boot up floopy inside a: drive and while doing some file cleaning as part of my preparing for upgrade I deleted the essentials boot files.. I was trying out this "easycleaner" application and one of it's features deletes duplicate files and you guessed it, boot up floppy in a: drive and, of course , the originals in c: drive , "easycleaner" opted for the ones in c: and now I have no boot up files on c: and my pc has not been able to recognize a: drive for quite a while so I am DOOMED /// or am I? I am confident someone here will bring me back. Do not understand how my pc can read a: drive, yet , here comes "easycleaner" and had no problem picking up those files in the floppy. Sorry to make long story, .... please help me . don't worry about making long story... I follow word by word if you give me hope... I 've clumpsy before but now I've really done it. I got to this newsgroup while reading about some flash drive booting approach but Im afraid it was little to hard to understand and....... neveer mind , just tell me what to do , Por Favor. Ricardo |
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Yeah, Mart......I picked up on the contradictions.....that is why I was
reaching for more details and questioning whether the OP could still boot into Safe Mode. Having a boot floppy, or actually, not having one, is easily fixable. I have to wonder, also, how he knows the files are missing from the boot floppy, if the A:\ is not functioning. Guess we will just have to wait for a response...........good to hear your face again!! Heirloom, old and on my way to the Dr. "Mart" wrote in message ... Hi HL, it was a long (verbose) post but I read :- .. and do not have a working a: drive to boot from with my startup floppy. and ... my pc has not been able to recognize a: drive for quite a while. but Ricardo 'appears' to contradict himself with :- Do not understand how my pc can read a: drive, yet , here comes "easycleaner" and had no problem picking up those files in the floppy. especially when .. and don't ask how I happened to have my boot up floopy inside a: drive So I won't ask - but I am confused g Mart "Heirloom" wrote in message ... Ricardo, Have you attempted to boot into Safe Mode? It was *my* take that your A:\ is still working, you just boogered the boot floppy. If you have access to the Net from another machine, there are a number of places on the Net that you can download an Me boot disk.....just do a Google search. Is there a 'recovery' feature for deleted files in the 'easy cleaner' app? If so, try it...if it works, never use it again. Heirloom, old and needs more details p.s. in your next post, please include: Did you attempt the XP install? If so, how far did you get? How many HD's and/or virtual drives (partitions) "Mart" wrote in message ... Ricardo, not exactly clear as to what you have and have not got, but to summarise *my* take of your report :- 1) you can't boot your C: drive into WinMe 2) your A: drive isn't functioning. 3) your essential 'boot files' are either missing from your C: drive and/or your floppy start-up disk. (Not quite sure how you know for certain that the 'boot files' are missing from your C: drive if you can't 'see it', apparently) Can you verify the above and then we may be able to make some headway. And, with the cost of a replacement floppy drive being so low, I would suggest you first start by fitting a new one (or at least find out why the old one doesn't work) - you're going to need. Mart "rpmsfpr" wrote in message ... I've been taking care of my pc health without a doctor's diploma. I'm not even a nurse. I've been doing good so far by information I find when I google whatever problem I am trying to solve. Sometimes I get lucky , sometimes takes a while , long while to find the right solution... I wish I knew about this place. I found you guys as I wasresearching my current problem and started to read and read and , boy oh boy, I forgot my problem . I learned more in a couple of thread than all the research I've done in my pc's life. Unfortunatelly, I do have a problem and desperation is leading my life. I deleted boot files by accident and do not have a working a: drive to boot from with my startup floppy. I am happy with ME but all this about not getting support anymore has been bothering me. So I started reading up on how to upgrade to XP since I am going to perform the OS change surgery myself and did not want to make any mistake... so much for that...... mistake happened before surgery and don't ask how I happened to have my boot up floopy inside a: drive and while doing some file cleaning as part of my preparing for upgrade I deleted the essentials boot files.. I was trying out this "easycleaner" application and one of it's features deletes duplicate files and you guessed it, boot up floppy in a: drive and, of course , the originals in c: drive , "easycleaner" opted for the ones in c: and now I have no boot up files on c: and my pc has not been able to recognize a: drive for quite a while so I am DOOMED /// or am I? I am confident someone here will bring me back. Do not understand how my pc can read a: drive, yet , here comes "easycleaner" and had no problem picking up those files in the floppy. Sorry to make long story, .... please help me . don't worry about making long story... I follow word by word if you give me hope... I 've clumpsy before but now I've really done it. I got to this newsgroup while reading about some flash drive booting approach but Im afraid it was little to hard to understand and....... neveer mind , just tell me what to do , Por Favor. Ricardo |
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This is nerve wrecking , Ed. I've been working little too much last couple
of days and did not feel to add frustration by logging on and finding out that indeed I amm a dead cat. Now that I think I can handle it I find all this replies and said YES!!!! They Sure Know What To Do....... still shaking I open first one, you, and ,,,, and,,,,, ,,,,,Ay, Ay, you say someone else will get back ..... You can't help me??? I see there's Mart and Heirloom down the line with two entries each and dont know what to think,, are they chatting among eachother??,, are they giving me more than one solution???? are they having hard time finding solution and have to go back and forth??? are they this are they that... and ... I 've never been so tense in my life!!! But thank you for replying, it made me feel you feel as well .. and though Im trembling, I will open those entries and face my destiny... it has been hard around here and mainly on my pockets and just can't afford to buy new hard drive to start over ... If Mart or Heirloom can not help, then I will be hanging there alright,,,,,, by my neck, probably from the hard drive's belt.. ..... ..... .. oh well , at least nice to have met you.. actually you are a milestone for me being my very first newsgroup response.....LOL.. I know Im going to love this place,,, that is when I get a computer to err with...... LOL... only way to go thru this is laughing..... Have a great one Ed "Ed Meza" wrote: Ricardo, Hang in there. There are solutions for your situation and someone in this newsgroup will get back to you. Ed "rpmsfpr" wrote in message ... I've been taking care of my pc health without a doctor's diploma. I'm not even a nurse. I've been doing good so far by information I find when I google whatever problem I am trying to solve. Sometimes I get lucky , sometimes takes a while , long while to find the right solution... I wish I knew about this place. I found you guys as I wasresearching my current problem and started to read and read and , boy oh boy, I forgot my problem .. I learned more in a couple of thread than all the research I've done in my pc's life. Unfortunatelly, I do have a problem and desperation is leading my life. I deleted boot files by accident and do not have a working a: drive to boot from with my startup floppy. I am happy with ME but all this about not getting support anymore has been bothering me. So I started reading up on how to upgrade to XP since I am going to perform the OS change surgery myself and did not want to make any mistake... so much for that...... mistake happened before surgery and don't ask how I happened to have my boot up floopy inside a: drive and while doing some file cleaning as part of my preparing for upgrade I deleted the essentials boot files.. I was trying out this "easycleaner" application and one of it's features deletes duplicate files and you guessed it, boot up floppy in a: drive and, of course , the originals in c: drive , "easycleaner" opted for the ones in c: and now I have no boot up files on c: and my pc has not been able to recognize a: drive for quite a while so I am DOOMED /// or am I? I am confident someone here will bring me back. Do not understand how my pc can read a: drive, yet , here comes "easycleaner" and had no problem picking up those files in the floppy. Sorry to make long story, .... please help me . don't worry about making long story... I follow word by word if you give me hope... I 've clumpsy before but now I've really done it. I got to this newsgroup while reading about some flash drive booting approach but Im afraid it was little to hard to understand and....... neveer mind , just tell me what to do , Por Favor. Ricardo |
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Hola Mart, Thank you for dropping by.. .. You know, funny you ask, 'cause
just before I opened your reply I was thinking , I'm really not sure about the missing boot files,,, I was actually guessing because I can not boot, so it only make sense to this, your humble diciple... and if can not see them , well again, I honestly believed can not see 'cause they miss and if they miss , no boot, and round and round I go in this dizzy spell and that's how I figure,,, sorry,,, no Black Magic for me I guess.... this happened some while ago and I've been trying all kind of fixing , nothing works, ... my friend lend me his laptop so that I can at least check my emails and do research for a solution and here I am... the more I think about how was I so stupid to delete whatever it was I deleted, my mind gets blurry and rather not remember and keep looking for a way.... all I know is when I turn pc on I get "Invalid system disk Replace the disk, and then press any key".... .. I take ,disk means boot up disk,,, so I put in a: and nothing, back to message, then I put OEM restoration cd in dvd burner,,, and nothing,,,,, switch it to dvd player, and nothing,,.. but I tell you Mart, I press F1 and got BIOS screen and boy I was happy to see that... at least thought I can bring my baby back,,, don't know why 'cause I have no idea about BIOS,, well more or less I know something from playing wannabe pc technician and have even changed things around ,,, stupid again?? ,, any way too late .. hoping that option "restore default" will set it back the way it was... but I think I read something about if you change BIOS it will save as default and then was not sure if got back to original state.. but, Im thinking the more I tell you , the more your diagnosiss will be "defunct" "R I P" and I start thinking of the places my mouse has clicked and belive I desconnected the a: and drives myself bby going into what I think or figured while in my wannabe state, the BIOS version of windows ,,, "device manager"in the system icon of control panel..... Im probably wrong about that but the fact is that I went and upgraded some of the drivers and,.... oh no..;. I am writing and thinking you saying what a dumn idiot ..... the useless a: drive.... right???? that's where it happened?? that's where I made it obsolete???. I forget what of many accidents I had then and had to boot in safe mode, I believe it was, somehow I had to chose to reboot with or without drives or something like that and really forgot how it went but ever since , even though I fix my then problem I was not able to access my a: drive and for that matter, my dvd player located at the top,, under the dvd I have my cd rom burner and that one worked and with some little difficulty I was able to restore , . I got used to having only that one drive which eventually I upgraded with a dvd burner a friend gave me for Christmas and once in a while I will miss my A: drive or my dvd player when I was burning cds ... as I start to explore dvd burning , movie making and all them wonderful things I start having trouble with memory and crashing after just burning two cd's with Nero, and I was blaming Nero 'cause I had no trouble when doing with Easy Creator 5 . so I unistalled Nero and got Easy back but one of it features that deals with cut and paste , and drag to cd without burning would not load and puzzled did not know what's going on... .. .. that's another thing... because not drag feature , I can not access all this files I have in cds I dragged when backing up and saving them for one of my many computer fixing performance and ,,, well , I have lived with that , thinking one day I solve that one , but . ....... OH GOD I've never seen my problem in writing and looks like a real BIG mess .... dont know what's gonna happen and your reply gave me both hope of resurrection and resignation to let go and get a new hard drive to start ..... .. can not say it again , it hurts, to start .. to start all over again..... THere... I said it.... I willing to relive my painful pc past if that's going to help you help me.. I really appreciate you taking time to read me , especially since I have trouble making short stories... Im going to next reply and see what awaits me.... Hasta la bye bye Mart and thank you. "Mart" wrote: Ricardo, not exactly clear as to what you have and have not got, but to summarise *my* take of your report :- 1) you can't boot your C: drive into WinMe 2) your A: drive isn't functioning. 3) your essential 'boot files' are either missing from your C: drive and/or your floppy start-up disk. (Not quite sure how you know for certain that the 'boot files' are missing from your C: drive if you can't 'see it', apparently) Can you verify the above and then we may be able to make some headway. And, with the cost of a replacement floppy drive being so low, I would suggest you first start by fitting a new one (or at least find out why the old one doesn't work) - you're going to need. Mart "rpmsfpr" wrote in message ... I've been taking care of my pc health without a doctor's diploma. I'm not even a nurse. I've been doing good so far by information I find when I google whatever problem I am trying to solve. Sometimes I get lucky , sometimes takes a while , long while to find the right solution... I wish I knew about this place. I found you guys as I wasresearching my current problem and started to read and read and , boy oh boy, I forgot my problem . I learned more in a couple of thread than all the research I've done in my pc's life. Unfortunatelly, I do have a problem and desperation is leading my life. I deleted boot files by accident and do not have a working a: drive to boot from with my startup floppy. I am happy with ME but all this about not getting support anymore has been bothering me. So I started reading up on how to upgrade to XP since I am going to perform the OS change surgery myself and did not want to make any mistake... so much for that...... mistake happened before surgery and don't ask how I happened to have my boot up floopy inside a: drive and while doing some file cleaning as part of my preparing for upgrade I deleted the essentials boot files.. I was trying out this "easycleaner" application and one of it's features deletes duplicate files and you guessed it, boot up floppy in a: drive and, of course , the originals in c: drive , "easycleaner" opted for the ones in c: and now I have no boot up files on c: and my pc has not been able to recognize a: drive for quite a while so I am DOOMED /// or am I? I am confident someone here will bring me back. Do not understand how my pc can read a: drive, yet , here comes "easycleaner" and had no problem picking up those files in the floppy. Sorry to make long story, .... please help me . don't worry about making long story... I follow word by word if you give me hope... I 've clumpsy before but now I've really done it. I got to this newsgroup while reading about some flash drive booting approach but Im afraid it was little to hard to understand and....... neveer mind , just tell me what to do , Por Favor. Ricardo |
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OK Ricardo, let's take one step at a time and keep it very simple.
1) Make sure that there isn't a floppy disk in your A: drive. 2) Make sure that there isn't a CD in either your CD-ROM or DVD drive. 3) Boot your machine from cold (i.e from power-off) Exactly what error message do you see on your screen? Mart "rpmsfpr" wrote Hola Mart, Thank you for dropping by.. .. You know, funny you ask, 'cause ..... snipped |
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Hola Heirloom,, thank you for asking..... I was just visiting with Mart and
kind of explained my journey thru darkness leading to dead valley and hoped I did not confuse him .......but yes,,, I downloaded boot disk for ME from this website I learned about right here when I first arrived.. Bootdisk.com created by ,,, his name escapes me, but he won one of them MVaward and I was so happy to find it, but did not work,,, still sure it is a: drive problem as I was telling Mart that I went into the device manager and upgraded drivers and made some changes and ... hey,,, I forgot to tell Mart that I when I F1 to BIOS I change the order of booting to make floppy first one a the top as sugested somewhere in my research .... hmm. I should go back .. yes I have to.. but Heirloom I will fill in your questions... Heirloom./..??? Heirloom? hey, are you the guy everyone was asking about somewhere in here??? I was learnin a lot having fun reading some of the questions and answers...and ocassional episodes where there was some type of smarty remarks and biting at eachother.... just like a tv soap.. and then also seems you guys been hanging around here for some time and know eachother and there was,,, I think it was,,, your name,,, Heirloom... and boy seems everyone thinks the world of you... if my memory do not fail me and it is you, I am honored you have replied to my very first entry , now I can add a celebrity to my milestones....... wait a minute.. Im so bad with names at the beggining and now Im thinking maybe was not you they talk about but it was you who owns Bootdisk.com.... no, no can't be, or you would have send me there instead of suggesting google... but either way Im glad you are here as well ,,, maybe you and Mart will be the dynamic duo who rescue me..... sorry to drag this.... Easy Cleaner , I used it twice and perhaps it has recovery file feature but no good for me.... I cant get in windows.. keep getting Invalid system disk message....Easycleaner was recomended by the microsoft article I was reading about updating to XP... it looked like a great application and it was free .. I ran the first time and when got to the duplicate part of it, it took so long to scan,,,, now I was not aware of boot floppy being inside the A:drive,,,, I thought it was stuck 'cause I waited and waited ,,, I could see it was reading files but took too long so I canceled and kept on something else ... everything was fine....second time I use it I was patient enough to wait and ......tell you the true, I was surprise to see so many duplicates..... should have thought something was wrong .... right there and then I should've backed off.....AAYY Heirloom... this writing about it really a punishment... stuupid me.... I don t think Easycleaner 's fault... I feel awful .. but you're right ,, I should not use it again if Im going to be scatterbrain......I wander if Im mature enough to upgrade to XP?? let alone installing it.....but no, Heirloom, never did get to install it... any way I need it to do some other stuff after easycleaner... If my ME windows is still somewhere behind that black screen with that nightmarish ivalid system disk message blinking awway at me, it 's probably displaying that page with the step by step instructions for housecleaning and preparing for XP.. I did not get far before I realized the catastrophy I've created... I've been in trouble before and only knew to fix by replacing hard drive... can not spend money like that anymore, at least not for now...I have 5 hard drives , each with an unsolved problem of their own.... I must be laughing stock of whoever is reading this..... So Heirloom, I have boot disk from the internet, an a: drive that does not function, can not access easycleaner to retrieve files (if it can be done) and did not get XPinstalled,,,, I have one hard drive and that about virtual partition is like reading some old papyros with ancient jeroglifics or however is spelled.. . all I do when installing hard drive is that fdisk thing and follow thru all those yes and no and partition c: and so on and eventually I have a working pc ready to encounter a tweaky rough life. I'll let you go.... please if you find something please look me up please Heirloom.. ' ..Hasta la bye bye.. Ricardo "Heirloom" wrote: Ricardo, Have you attempted to boot into Safe Mode? It was *my* take that your A:\ is still working, you just boogered the boot floppy. If you have access to the Net from another machine, there are a number of places on the Net that you can download an Me boot disk.....just do a Google search. Is there a 'recovery' feature for deleted files in the 'easy cleaner' app? If so, try it...if it works, never use it again. Heirloom, old and needs more details p.s. in your next post, please include: Did you attempt the XP install? If so, how far did you get? How many HD's and/or virtual drives (partitions) "Mart" wrote in message ... Ricardo, not exactly clear as to what you have and have not got, but to summarise *my* take of your report :- 1) you can't boot your C: drive into WinMe 2) your A: drive isn't functioning. 3) your essential 'boot files' are either missing from your C: drive and/or your floppy start-up disk. (Not quite sure how you know for certain that the 'boot files' are missing from your C: drive if you can't 'see it', apparently) Can you verify the above and then we may be able to make some headway. And, with the cost of a replacement floppy drive being so low, I would suggest you first start by fitting a new one (or at least find out why the old one doesn't work) - you're going to need. Mart "rpmsfpr" wrote in message ... I've been taking care of my pc health without a doctor's diploma. I'm not even a nurse. I've been doing good so far by information I find when I google whatever problem I am trying to solve. Sometimes I get lucky , sometimes takes a while , long while to find the right solution... I wish I knew about this place. I found you guys as I wasresearching my current problem and started to read and read and , boy oh boy, I forgot my problem . I learned more in a couple of thread than all the research I've done in my pc's life. Unfortunatelly, I do have a problem and desperation is leading my life. I deleted boot files by accident and do not have a working a: drive to boot from with my startup floppy. I am happy with ME but all this about not getting support anymore has been bothering me. So I started reading up on how to upgrade to XP since I am going to perform the OS change surgery myself and did not want to make any mistake... so much for that...... mistake happened before surgery and don't ask how I happened to have my boot up floopy inside a: drive and while doing some file cleaning as part of my preparing for upgrade I deleted the essentials boot files.. I was trying out this "easycleaner" application and one of it's features deletes duplicate files and you guessed it, boot up floppy in a: drive and, of course , the originals in c: drive , "easycleaner" opted for the ones in c: and now I have no boot up files on c: and my pc has not been able to recognize a: drive for quite a while so I am DOOMED /// or am I? I am confident someone here will bring me back. Do not understand how my pc can read a: drive, yet , here comes "easycleaner" and had no problem picking up those files in the floppy. Sorry to make long story, .... please help me . don't worry about making long story... I follow word by word if you give me hope... I 've clumpsy before but now I've really done it. I got to this newsgroup while reading about some flash drive booting approach but Im afraid it was little to hard to understand and....... neveer mind , just tell me what to do , Por Favor. Ricardo |
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