Dell 8100 system, Windows ME OS
I was using my computer last night as usual and the computer hung and only the mouse would work, the background and music playing completely froze up. I waited a few minutes and powered down the computer after trying and failing with alt clt del. When I rebooted it went through the dell loadup screen and then said it could not boot F1 to retry F2 for setup. When I went into setup it was not recognizing my cd rom or harddrive. A few more boots and eventually it started to recognize both but took forever trying to load windows. When it finally did I tried safemode and it said the file IFSHLP.sys was corrupted or missing along with saying Registry/Configuration error use scan disk. When I attempt to run any scanreg out of dos it continues to give me failure reading C: errors. Also I attempted a reformat and it had an error reading C: when trying to do this.
After reading through the forums Ive created a boot disk for this file and am going to attempt to restore it later today. However, I did try to reinstall windows using the cd rom but it could only get to 59% of the system scan before it failed due to an Reading FAT Error. Also since my computer froze up the hard disk has been making a lot of noise when the computer is booting almost like a scratching and skipping noise, the only way to describe it is how my old PS2 cd rom used to sound before it failed.
I have a feeling that the harddisk has failed and that I am going to have to buy a new one, guess its better then the video card, processor, or motherboard going down, but a pain none the less. So if the C: is dead I would be interested in knowing exactly how to hook it up with my new hard drive, read something about a 'slave' drive, so that I could attempt to extract some valuable files from it. There isnt really much since I lost my first 3 years of college work last year when windows failed and I had to reformat, this time I actually saved big papers to floppy, so it isnt a big deal if it simply needs to go to the trash.
Thank you all for taking the time to read my problem and I appreciate any help you can give,
Chris
I was using my computer last night as usual and the computer hung and only the mouse would work, the background and music playing completely froze up. I waited a few minutes and powered down the computer after trying and failing with alt clt del. When I rebooted it went through the dell loadup screen and then said it could not boot F1 to retry F2 for setup. When I went into setup it was not recognizing my cd rom or harddrive. A few more boots and eventually it started to recognize both but took forever trying to load windows. When it finally did I tried safemode and it said the file IFSHLP.sys was corrupted or missing along with saying Registry/Configuration error use scan disk. When I attempt to run any scanreg out of dos it continues to give me failure reading C: errors. Also I attempted a reformat and it had an error reading C: when trying to do this.
After reading through the forums Ive created a boot disk for this file and am going to attempt to restore it later today. However, I did try to reinstall windows using the cd rom but it could only get to 59% of the system scan before it failed due to an Reading FAT Error. Also since my computer froze up the hard disk has been making a lot of noise when the computer is booting almost like a scratching and skipping noise, the only way to describe it is how my old PS2 cd rom used to sound before it failed.
I have a feeling that the harddisk has failed and that I am going to have to buy a new one, guess its better then the video card, processor, or motherboard going down, but a pain none the less. So if the C: is dead I would be interested in knowing exactly how to hook it up with my new hard drive, read something about a 'slave' drive, so that I could attempt to extract some valuable files from it. There isnt really much since I lost my first 3 years of college work last year when windows failed and I had to reformat, this time I actually saved big papers to floppy, so it isnt a big deal if it simply needs to go to the trash.
Thank you all for taking the time to read my problem and I appreciate any help you can give,
Chris