Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2003 19:09:29 +0100 From: Mikkel Breiler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] HELP!
On Mon, 8 Dec 2003 20:51:24 -0800, "Matt Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Boy... I don't even recall getting a recovery FDD when I bought my 50CT back >in '97. I think there is, but it requires that you have a cd drive to make use of it. Can't remember if this is the one or I am remembering for the 110.. It could be me.. >But any old Windows boot floppy made from some other system will get you to >the DOS prompt. If one uses a proper bootdiskette one can with great success comment out the scsi sections of the config.sys nd autoexec.bat files ;) >You can re-install Windows from there if the installation >files are still on you hard drive. CD\ to the installation directory, and >run 'setup'. > >You might 1st want to check to see if your old Win98 setup is recoverable. >What happened to loose access to it? Sometimes all you need to do is run a >Windows boot FDD, and then run scandisk. Or fdisk /MNR, then sys C: and if that fails try installing over the previous instalaltion, if anything was missing it will be repaired, if on the other hand there is a virus, the best thing to do is to discard the current setup, format the disk (/Q to make it fast). Whenever I find myself starting over I do this. I boot up and load "XMSMMGR 2048" from the cd insatllation directory, then I wipe the disk using either "deltree /Y C:\" if I remembered to put that on the boot floppy I use. Or I use "format C: /Q" to make a quick format of the drive. Then I issue these commands md c:\w98uk2 c: cd w98uk2 copy X:\system\*.* md vga md audio md zoom md 3com (here I copy the contents of the driver floppies for these devices onto the harddrives subdirs. using copy A:. vga, or the contents of the driver directory for Windows 98 on the cd for the device. Zoom is my wireless lan card, 3COM my network card) I start the installation of windows. And go through it. And choose standard stuff. Upon 2nd boot I install the drivers, and after booting up again I install TotalCommander (used to bne WinCommander), and set up to have TweakUI for Windows 98 - powertoys, autologon to the network, set display preferences to have no animated windows, and no autoplayback of cds in the cd drive. Those are the basics. I leave all the instalaltion files on the disk in the \win98uk2 directory, and preserve the structure. After that I can go about installing software and insert any data I have backed up prior to starting over. When All is done I usually make a ghostimage of the C: drive. Usually my C: drive is set to 1500MB but on some systems where I will be using more software I set it to 2GB. The last thing I install is antivirus software, which is then updated and s scan is made, I never bother system emergency floppies, as everything I need including data files less than 24 hrs old are on my network. Which of course is also antivirus protected - on a machine that never reboots, and when it is is thoroughly scanned. >A trick I've learned in the past when making multiplle attempts to get >Windows set up on the same system is to run 'setup /is'. Once scandisk has >checked the HDD, there's no need (at least in my experience) to have to have >scandisk run each subsequent attempt to setup Windows if you have problems >the 1st time. The /is switch skips running scandisk. Indeed it is slightly speedier. >I also like keeping the Win98 installation files on a 2nd partition. That >way I can run 'format c:', to start from a clean file syste, I find that if I need to format C: then I won't be using any files on the computer in question but load from CD or equivalent from my server. There usually is a reason why software fails. -breiler ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
