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Scandisk , Restore Problems and Upgrade to XP
I'm a novice of most novices. I had to replace my hard drive a year ago.
Since that time my scandisk and and restore will not work. Now I have purchased MP3 players for my daughters and found out afterwards that I need to get Windows XP to make them work for me. My 40 G Dell Deminsion 4100 does not have a burner. I have lots of music files and photos. Will changing to XP solve my scandisk and restore problems? Will I lose my music files and photos? |
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Scandisk , Restore Problems and Upgrade to XP
Since you provide no details of your problems it is difficult to comment
other than that installing XP will mean running a new operating system with its own set of quirks albeit an operating system that is not only robust but also far more advanced than Win Me. Depending on the details of your scandisk problem this could indicate a hardware problem which if the cases, is likely to persist regardless of the operating system in use. As for your restore problem, any suggestion or comment that I might make would have to be based on guesswork and therefore pointless. -- Mike Maltby Novice in Bank Land wrote: I'm a novice of most novices. I had to replace my hard drive a year ago. Since that time my scandisk and and restore will not work. Now I have purchased MP3 players for my daughters and found out afterwards that I need to get Windows XP to make them work for me. My 40 G Dell Deminsion 4100 does not have a burner. I have lots of music files and photos. Will changing to XP solve my scandisk and restore problems? Will I lose my music files and photos? |
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Scandisk , Restore Problems and Upgrade to XP
Thanks for your reply. The scandisk will begin but it will keep restarting
and never finish. I have tried it in DOS and managed to get it to work. The restore has no restore points and always ask me to restart my computer everytime I try to establish a restore piont. As for the other part of my problem, how can I save my photos and music files if I'm forced to get a new hard drive or new computer without a burner? "Mike M" wrote: Since you provide no details of your problems it is difficult to comment other than that installing XP will mean running a new operating system with its own set of quirks albeit an operating system that is not only robust but also far more advanced than Win Me. Depending on the details of your scandisk problem this could indicate a hardware problem which if the cases, is likely to persist regardless of the operating system in use. As for your restore problem, any suggestion or comment that I might make would have to be based on guesswork and therefore pointless. -- Mike Maltby Novice in Bank Land wrote: I'm a novice of most novices. I had to replace my hard drive a year ago. Since that time my scandisk and and restore will not work. Now I have purchased MP3 players for my daughters and found out afterwards that I need to get Windows XP to make them work for me. My 40 G Dell Deminsion 4100 does not have a burner. I have lots of music files and photos. Will changing to XP solve my scandisk and restore problems? Will I lose my music files and photos? |
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Scandisk , Restore Problems and Upgrade to XP
hi....buy or borrow a usb plug in cd-writer and burn them onto cd....
"Novice in Bank Land" wrote: Thanks for your reply. The scandisk will begin but it will keep restarting and never finish. I have tried it in DOS and managed to get it to work. The restore has no restore points and always ask me to restart my computer everytime I try to establish a restore piont. As for the other part of my problem, how can I save my photos and music files if I'm forced to get a new hard drive or new computer without a burner? "Mike M" wrote: Since you provide no details of your problems it is difficult to comment other than that installing XP will mean running a new operating system with its own set of quirks albeit an operating system that is not only robust but also far more advanced than Win Me. Depending on the details of your scandisk problem this could indicate a hardware problem which if the cases, is likely to persist regardless of the operating system in use. As for your restore problem, any suggestion or comment that I might make would have to be based on guesswork and therefore pointless. -- Mike Maltby Novice in Bank Land wrote: I'm a novice of most novices. I had to replace my hard drive a year ago. Since that time my scandisk and and restore will not work. Now I have purchased MP3 players for my daughters and found out afterwards that I need to get Windows XP to make them work for me. My 40 G Dell Deminsion 4100 does not have a burner. I have lots of music files and photos. Will changing to XP solve my scandisk and restore problems? Will I lose my music files and photos? |
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Scandisk.
You already know the solution. Run in DOS. Alternatively boot to Safe Mode and run Scandisk. The problem is that you have some other application running that is modifying files on your hard disk thus causing scandisk to start. This is often the result of having a single large partition and running scandisk whilst connected to the net with firewall and AV application and other application the crate logs running at the same time. System Restore. First check that you don't have a wininit.ini file in your Windows folder. If you do, rename this to wininit.old and retry System Restore. If this works then you possibly have a program that creates a wininit.ini file each time you boot your system. One known example is tgcmd.exe, another is a program called "ACCESS DENIED". If you have tgcmd.exe I understand that disabling it in MSConfig | Startup will have no adverse effect on your system but enable you to use System Restore. Likewise ACCESS DENIED needs to be "switched off" whilst using SR to either create or restore to a previous checkpoint. McAfee's Spam Killer also seems to create a new wininit.ini file each time the system is booted likewise CCleaner if in "clean at boot" mode. See also MS KB 274092 - "Error Message: System Restore Cannot Run Until You Restart the Computer" (http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=274092). If this isn't the reason for your problem then try running SCANREG /FIX from a command prompt such as Start | Run. Note that the system will re-boot so don't have any applications open when doing this. I suggest this because the same message is also displayed when the registry has been corrupted in some way. scanreg /fix attempts to repair that damage. As for the other part of my problem, how can I save my photos and music files if I'm forced to get a new hard drive or new computer without a burner? By either: Networking your PC with another and copying the files to the other machine, or, Borrowing and using an external storage device such as External hard drive, USB thumbdrive, CD burner, etc. If all else fails and the size of the files is not too great by copying them to a web site (or using G-mail where storage is 2GB per account) and then downloading to a new PC. If however you upgrade your current system to XP rather than clean install then your current data will still be available to you in XP. -- Mike Maltby Novice in Bank Land wrote: Thanks for your reply. The scandisk will begin but it will keep restarting and never finish. I have tried it in DOS and managed to get it to work. The restore has no restore points and always ask me to restart my computer everytime I try to establish a restore piont. As for the other part of my problem, how can I save my photos and music files if I'm forced to get a new hard drive or new computer without a burner? |
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Thanks
"bob94030" wrote: hi....buy or borrow a usb plug in cd-writer and burn them onto cd.... "Novice in Bank Land" wrote: Thanks for your reply. The scandisk will begin but it will keep restarting and never finish. I have tried it in DOS and managed to get it to work. The restore has no restore points and always ask me to restart my computer everytime I try to establish a restore piont. As for the other part of my problem, how can I save my photos and music files if I'm forced to get a new hard drive or new computer without a burner? "Mike M" wrote: Since you provide no details of your problems it is difficult to comment other than that installing XP will mean running a new operating system with its own set of quirks albeit an operating system that is not only robust but also far more advanced than Win Me. Depending on the details of your scandisk problem this could indicate a hardware problem which if the cases, is likely to persist regardless of the operating system in use. As for your restore problem, any suggestion or comment that I might make would have to be based on guesswork and therefore pointless. -- Mike Maltby Novice in Bank Land wrote: I'm a novice of most novices. I had to replace my hard drive a year ago. Since that time my scandisk and and restore will not work. Now I have purchased MP3 players for my daughters and found out afterwards that I need to get Windows XP to make them work for me. My 40 G Dell Deminsion 4100 does not have a burner. I have lots of music files and photos. Will changing to XP solve my scandisk and restore problems? Will I lose my music files and photos? |
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Thanks for the advice. I did not find an wininit.ini file and scanreg /fix
did not correct the problem either. I think I will get a burner and copy my pictures and music and get a new system altogether. I've never been pleased with Windows Me. "Mike M" wrote: Scandisk. You already know the solution. Run in DOS. Alternatively boot to Safe Mode and run Scandisk. The problem is that you have some other application running that is modifying files on your hard disk thus causing scandisk to start. This is often the result of having a single large partition and running scandisk whilst connected to the net with firewall and AV application and other application the crate logs running at the same time. System Restore. First check that you don't have a wininit.ini file in your Windows folder. If you do, rename this to wininit.old and retry System Restore. If this works then you possibly have a program that creates a wininit.ini file each time you boot your system. One known example is tgcmd.exe, another is a program called "ACCESS DENIED". If you have tgcmd.exe I understand that disabling it in MSConfig | Startup will have no adverse effect on your system but enable you to use System Restore. Likewise ACCESS DENIED needs to be "switched off" whilst using SR to either create or restore to a previous checkpoint. McAfee's Spam Killer also seems to create a new wininit.ini file each time the system is booted likewise CCleaner if in "clean at boot" mode. See also MS KB 274092 - "Error Message: System Restore Cannot Run Until You Restart the Computer" (http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=274092). If this isn't the reason for your problem then try running SCANREG /FIX from a command prompt such as Start | Run. Note that the system will re-boot so don't have any applications open when doing this. I suggest this because the same message is also displayed when the registry has been corrupted in some way. scanreg /fix attempts to repair that damage. As for the other part of my problem, how can I save my photos and music files if I'm forced to get a new hard drive or new computer without a burner? By either: Networking your PC with another and copying the files to the other machine, or, Borrowing and using an external storage device such as External hard drive, USB thumbdrive, CD burner, etc. If all else fails and the size of the files is not too great by copying them to a web site (or using G-mail where storage is 2GB per account) and then downloading to a new PC. If however you upgrade your current system to XP rather than clean install then your current data will still be available to you in XP. -- Mike Maltby Novice in Bank Land wrote: Thanks for your reply. The scandisk will begin but it will keep restarting and never finish. I have tried it in DOS and managed to get it to work. The restore has no restore points and always ask me to restart my computer everytime I try to establish a restore piont. As for the other part of my problem, how can I save my photos and music files if I'm forced to get a new hard drive or new computer without a burner? |
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Scandisk , Restore Problems and Upgrade to XP
Thanks for the advice. I did not find an wininit.ini file and
scanreg /fix did not correct the problem either. Check again. It is extremely unusual for one or other of those solutions not to fix the system restore problem you are seeing. -- Mike Maltby Novice in Bank Land wrote: Thanks for the advice. I did not find an wininit.ini file and scanreg /fix did not correct the problem either. I think I will get a burner and copy my pictures and music and get a new system altogether. I've never been pleased with Windows Me. |
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Scandisk , Restore Problems and Upgrade to XP
I did find a wininit.err file and a wininit.bak file but no wininit.ini.
"Mike M" wrote: Thanks for the advice. I did not find an wininit.ini file and scanreg /fix did not correct the problem either. Check again. It is extremely unusual for one or other of those solutions not to fix the system restore problem you are seeing. -- Mike Maltby Novice in Bank Land wrote: Thanks for the advice. I did not find an wininit.ini file and scanreg /fix did not correct the problem either. I think I will get a burner and copy my pictures and music and get a new system altogether. I've never been pleased with Windows Me. |
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