nizers
06-30-2003, 03:53 AM
I"m attempting to fix a friends computer that he has somehow totally messed up. Now, previously i have reformatted my parents Compaq with thier Win98SE Recovery CD (When i say reformat, i mean clean... deleted the partition and everything) so i am somewhat familiar with the process. Now my friend has a compaq also that had WinME on it untill i deleted the partition and began to create a new one. All my friend gave me was his Compaq Recovery CD which so far has been useless. This is what i've done so far:
1. Downloaded a bootdisk from bootdisk.com (http://www.bootdisk.com) for WinME
2. Followed the directions on how to Reformat a computer with Win98 (i assume they're similar to ME instructions) from www.bholcomb.com (http://www.bholcomb.com).
3. Used the Downloaded program delpart.exe to delete the partition.
4. Used the fdisk.exe program from the bootdisk.com bootdisk to create a new partition.
***This is where it gets tricky***
The next step says to format the c: drive by using the command 'format c: /s'... only this doesn't work. So i skip this step and go on to the next step. Copy the mscdex.exe file to the c: drive... Can't do this either, the bootdisk that i downloaded doesn't have the mscdex.exe file on it... or it does, but it's inside the file extract.exe and i can't figure out how to get it out. So.. i skip this as well and just boot up with the WinME recovery CD in the computer and voila.. it seems like the CD-ROM drivers have been found and installed.
So, now i can use the CD-ROM, but that seems to be all that the recovery disk is good for. Well, i don't really want to install WinME back onto his computer and i'd rather just get him Win98SE... so i thought that i might (just maybe, if i'm really, really lucky) be able to use my parent's compaq recovery disk. So i put it in and start the computer.. it starts working. I see the Compaq Recovery screen come up. Then it changes to a screen that says "working..." ...and then that's it. It's frozen. Just to be sure that it was actually frozen i left the computer running all night long only to find that it was still 'working' when i woke up.
Please... if anybody has any suggestions or sees where i've made a mistake in all of this, please let me know. I'm really not worried about whether this computer gets fixed or not.. but on a personal note his computer is really pissing me off and i hate losing. Please Help
1. Downloaded a bootdisk from bootdisk.com (http://www.bootdisk.com) for WinME
2. Followed the directions on how to Reformat a computer with Win98 (i assume they're similar to ME instructions) from www.bholcomb.com (http://www.bholcomb.com).
3. Used the Downloaded program delpart.exe to delete the partition.
4. Used the fdisk.exe program from the bootdisk.com bootdisk to create a new partition.
***This is where it gets tricky***
The next step says to format the c: drive by using the command 'format c: /s'... only this doesn't work. So i skip this step and go on to the next step. Copy the mscdex.exe file to the c: drive... Can't do this either, the bootdisk that i downloaded doesn't have the mscdex.exe file on it... or it does, but it's inside the file extract.exe and i can't figure out how to get it out. So.. i skip this as well and just boot up with the WinME recovery CD in the computer and voila.. it seems like the CD-ROM drivers have been found and installed.
So, now i can use the CD-ROM, but that seems to be all that the recovery disk is good for. Well, i don't really want to install WinME back onto his computer and i'd rather just get him Win98SE... so i thought that i might (just maybe, if i'm really, really lucky) be able to use my parent's compaq recovery disk. So i put it in and start the computer.. it starts working. I see the Compaq Recovery screen come up. Then it changes to a screen that says "working..." ...and then that's it. It's frozen. Just to be sure that it was actually frozen i left the computer running all night long only to find that it was still 'working' when i woke up.
Please... if anybody has any suggestions or sees where i've made a mistake in all of this, please let me know. I'm really not worried about whether this computer gets fixed or not.. but on a personal note his computer is really pissing me off and i hate losing. Please Help