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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 -- 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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AAARRRGGGHHH!!!!
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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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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