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Old June 3rd 04, 06:52 PM
Heed
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Default AAARRRGGGHHH!!!!

I stupidly upgraded to IE6, then to compound the stupidity I attempted
to upgrade my good ol' Win98 to Win98SE with the ultimate goal of then
upgrading to WinXP. Now I'm sure you'll agree that's a lot of upgrading.

Well, let's see where I am now.....

Win98SE errored out and would not upgrade me, but it was nice enough to
nuke my Norton AV, and that won't even re-install.

Ah but that's not all....

I find I suddenly can't delete anything, any attempt to do so crashes
Windows!

Still there's more.....

I said to myself "Why not do a registry restore!" I dazzled myself with
my own insight and brilliance. Start/shut down/restart in MS-DOS
mode/enter.....

Blue Screen of Death!

"Hmmm" I said to myself (at this point I was talking to myself quite a
bit...oh and drinking pretty heavily too) anyway where was I...oh yes,
"Hmmm" I said to myself, perhaps if I booted from the floppy I can get
into DOS from there." Dig through dozens and dozens of floppies I find
the startup disc, pop it in and restart the computer.

Boots right up into Windows, I might as well have stuck the floppy up my
nose for all the good it did.

Check the floppy and sure enough the startup files are on there. Open
the floppy and all seems right. Power down the whole PC. Have another
drink. Power it up and sure enough it boots right into Windows again!!!

Curse the day Bill Gates was born, have 2 more drinks then stare
vacantly at the monitor for an hour or 2. Go outside in the yard and
take out my frustration on several unfortunate slugs that happened to be
oozing around out there. Have another drink.

Ahh...upgrading....when will I ever learn?

Now I have limited use of the PC so long as I don't attempt to delete
anything, oh and by the way any attempt to "right-click" on anything to
get to the shell menu.....let's just say that that's a bad thing at this
point.

So I'm sending this little cry for help out to you guys as you are very
knowledgeable where these things are concerned.

My question basically is...How many feet do I have to drop this evil thing
to make sure it never ever does this to anyone again?

I'll be anxiously awaiting any comments, if I can keep the newreader
working till then I may actually read them too...

Heed


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Old June 14th 04, 08:35 AM
borg7of0
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dear AAARRRGGGHHH!!!

I feal your pain. droping, kicking, head butting and body
slaming have no effect. I've tried and so has my wife when
i spend too much time UPGRADING. my current tactic is
simply this.

first try to upgrade once
second 303 british through the power supply
third 12 guage through the rest
fourth whatever survives desurves another life in a new pc

repeat untill out of pc's or ammo

expencive but gratifying


-----Original Message-----
I stupidly upgraded to IE6, then to compound the

stupidity I attempted
to upgrade my good ol' Win98 to Win98SE with the ultimate

goal of then
upgrading to WinXP. Now I'm sure you'll agree that's a

lot of upgrading.

Well, let's see where I am now.....

Win98SE errored out and would not upgrade me, but it was

nice enough to
nuke my Norton AV, and that won't even re-install.

Ah but that's not all....

I find I suddenly can't delete anything, any attempt to

do so crashes
Windows!

Still there's more.....

I said to myself "Why not do a registry restore!" I

dazzled myself with
my own insight and brilliance. Start/shut down/restart in

MS-DOS
mode/enter.....

Blue Screen of Death!

"Hmmm" I said to myself (at this point I was talking to

myself quite a
bit...oh and drinking pretty heavily too) anyway where

was I...oh yes,
"Hmmm" I said to myself, perhaps if I booted from the

floppy I can get
into DOS from there." Dig through dozens and dozens of

floppies I find
the startup disc, pop it in and restart the computer.

Boots right up into Windows, I might as well have stuck

the floppy up my
nose for all the good it did.

Check the floppy and sure enough the startup files are on

there. Open
the floppy and all seems right. Power down the whole PC.

Have another
drink. Power it up and sure enough it boots right into

Windows again!!!

Curse the day Bill Gates was born, have 2 more drinks

then stare
vacantly at the monitor for an hour or 2. Go outside in

the yard and
take out my frustration on several unfortunate slugs that

happened to be
oozing around out there. Have another drink.

Ahh...upgrading....when will I ever learn?

Now I have limited use of the PC so long as I don't

attempt to delete
anything, oh and by the way any attempt to "right-click"

on anything to
get to the shell menu.....let's just say that that's a

bad thing at this
point.

So I'm sending this little cry for help out to you guys

as you are very
knowledgeable where these things are concerned.

My question basically is...How many feet do I have to

drop this evil thing
to make sure it never ever does this to anyone again?

I'll be anxiously awaiting any comments, if I can keep

the newreader
working till then I may actually read them too...

Heed


--
Remember the primary rules of USENET:
1. Nobody owes you anything.
2. Don't spam.
3. Nobody owes you anything.
4. You get more results by being nice than by

being rude.
5. Nobody owes you anything.
6. Search for answers yourself before asking for

help.
7. Nobody owes you anything.
8. Don't post off-topic.
9. Nobody owes you anything.
10. See rule no. 1.
.

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Old June 22nd 04, 06:42 AM
IanRobbo
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Default AAARRRGGGHHH!!!!

I just *had* to respond to your cry for help! And having
read your story (nice penmanship BTW) I can only but
sympathise completely. I was in exactly the same
situation earlier this year.
So - do you want the good news or the bad news?
OK... the bad news is you'll never get your system back to
its former state (unless you're running GoBack - but I'm
sure you would have mentioned it if you were). You're
going to have to bite the bullet and reformat C drive -
then reload W98 and your programs from scratch. Hopefully
you have a recent back-up of your data files (at least) -
or they reside on another partition - so you can reload
this info in due course. Take my advice, reinstall all
your programs from scratch. Do *not* use your back-ups
for anything other than restoring data. I know this will
involve a lot of time... I got quite good at it after 2
disasters but even so it still took me about 4 weeks
(spending at least some time each day) to get everything
back the way I wanted it and my system tweaked properly.
Now... the good news. You'll be surprised how well your
system performs after this whole mess is behind you. (And
yes... your Norton programs will behave beautifully too!)
Just think of it as a very large penance for drinking too
much while all this was happening!
Good luck.

 




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