davidgraham16
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I foolishly tried to improve the performance of my in-laws PC by reinstalling their windows 95 on top of there present copy as I had noticed that this seemed to iron out some problems when i re-installed windows 98 on my windows 98 system.
However, the re-installation did not go smoothly, numerous dialog boxes poped up stating that a file on the CD is older than the present file on the PC and it is recommended that you keep the present file. I went along with this, but it seemed that I was leaving more files than I was writing over!
The 'Preparing to run Windows for the first time screen' appeared and I thought all was going to be OK but then a message (white text on a black screen) came up informing me that windows was unable to produce a monolith file - or something like that, and a windows system file was unable to be updated, this file ended in .dxy (or something like that, sorry this all happened 3 days ago and I can't remember the exact details) - I think this is a driver extension isn't it?
I was advised to re-run the setup program but when I rebooted with the start-up disc in the PC, unlike windows 98, there was no option to start with CD - ROM support! I was at the A:\> prompt and typing C: [enter] successfully changed the drive to the C drive but typing D: only produced an error message that stated 'Invalid drive letter'. I panicked at this point as I couldn't think of any way of running the Windows 95 CD unless I can get at the D: drive.
I have just thought, perhaps my father- in-laws CD rom has been assigned a different drive letter? My other thought is typing
C:\>scandisk /restore
might allow me to restore the registry to a version that was stored prior to all the mess that I have caused. Will this work? and is it best to press 'No to all' when your asked do you want to keep your more recent copy during the re-installation process.
Thanks indeed if you have read all this, an a very big thanks if you can help.
David
However, the re-installation did not go smoothly, numerous dialog boxes poped up stating that a file on the CD is older than the present file on the PC and it is recommended that you keep the present file. I went along with this, but it seemed that I was leaving more files than I was writing over!
The 'Preparing to run Windows for the first time screen' appeared and I thought all was going to be OK but then a message (white text on a black screen) came up informing me that windows was unable to produce a monolith file - or something like that, and a windows system file was unable to be updated, this file ended in .dxy (or something like that, sorry this all happened 3 days ago and I can't remember the exact details) - I think this is a driver extension isn't it?
I was advised to re-run the setup program but when I rebooted with the start-up disc in the PC, unlike windows 98, there was no option to start with CD - ROM support! I was at the A:\> prompt and typing C: [enter] successfully changed the drive to the C drive but typing D: only produced an error message that stated 'Invalid drive letter'. I panicked at this point as I couldn't think of any way of running the Windows 95 CD unless I can get at the D: drive.
I have just thought, perhaps my father- in-laws CD rom has been assigned a different drive letter? My other thought is typing
C:\>scandisk /restore
might allow me to restore the registry to a version that was stored prior to all the mess that I have caused. Will this work? and is it best to press 'No to all' when your asked do you want to keep your more recent copy during the re-installation process.
Thanks indeed if you have read all this, an a very big thanks if you can help.
David