Did you say you deleted the windows folder? So you are going to do a fresh install?
I was going to suggest that you try disabling auto run for the cd drive. Ben Moore ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Dougherty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 8:10 PM Subject: PCWorks: Computer help. > I have a customer bring me there I think Gateway computer... > When I put a CD in the drive, I get a blue screen about an error. > The drive works fine from DOS, such as if I boot to Norton to check for virii. > This is WIN ME.. > Customer also states it will not find modem...they are right, none listed in system properties. > There were no restore points saved. > Scan disk found no errors. > I placed the startup CD in the drive and booted to that at an attempt to remove Windows folder and restore > windows, when I left the shop, it still said deleting c:\windows after about an hour. > I left it like this when I left. > Now, since it reads the drive in DOS..does this mean the CD-ROM is OK? > I tried restarting after deselecting every thing...in startup(msconfig). > I did try removing the CDROM and restarting and same thing happened. > I'm at home now and no I should include more information..but I'm leaving town on Sunday and need to get > this done by Saturday... > I think once I get the CD-ROM working, I can figure out how to get the modem back..One other important > note, these people use AOL, KAZAA, Gator and a bunch of other spyware junk. > Resources were just fine and there is 128M of ram. > When I booted to Norton disk, no virii was found.. > Any other ideas for me? > Jeff Dougherty ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
