(This doesn't seem to have gone through the first time.)
Hi, you experts . . . Over the weekend, my Win 98 machine refused to boot. It reported a registry problem, and SCANREG did not fix it. A friend of mine locally who does this kind of thing for a living said I needed to reinstall Win 98 to correct the problem. Numerous attempts to reinstall it from the .CAB files in the C:\WIN98 directory to the C:\WINDOWS directory all resulted in the message: "Message SU995028 Setup encountered an error while creating registry keys. If the problem persists, you will not be able to upgrade but should install Windows 98 to a new directory. (0x13a4)" Finally, I took its advice and created a new directory and installed it there. Not only does that mean that I will have to reinstall all the software before it can work, but for some reason it cannot find any of the proper drivers: for example, it refuses to let the monitor show anything but 16 colors, 640x480 resolution. What I would like to do, of course, is to get back to where I was last week or so, without the impending registry problem. I have exhausted my store of ideas on what to try (and my friend is not currently available and I don't want to keep bothering him for free advice, anyway), so I got my old Win 95 machine running (or at least walking) so I could ask for help. Is there some way I can do something like copy the registry file from the new directory into the old C:\WINDOWS directory, then try reinstalling there again with any hope of success? Or is there something else I can try? Thanks, -- Ronn! :)
