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fred devliegher
08-11-2004, 04:19 PM
I installed bootskin on an otherwise healthy computer, and it's fecked. I restarted, the new skin came up, and *boom* BSOD with instant reboot. Last known good config just causes another crash, I've used safe mode to do a sys restore but it just fails (I'm back in safe mode (or at least the low-col, low-res box that looks like it) with a "sys restore failed, no changes made" message).

Right now, whenever I start the laptop, I go into the safe mode-style box immediately, and Norton won&#39;t start <_< How can I fix this mess ? Anyone have a similar problem ?

A format is the VERY VERY LAST option. There&#39;s nothing vital on the HDD, but I&#39;m not giving up 10 gigs of ROM&#39;s without a fecking fight. Plus I hear Compaqs are a bitch to format...



Help ?

Spock4
08-11-2004, 08:56 PM
Try doing error checking.
CHKDSK

fred devliegher
08-11-2004, 09:20 PM
Well, apparently Bootskin doesn&#39;t play nice with certain drivers... in this case, it f*cked up Norton (switched to AVG now) and the vid card drivers (reinstalled);

For the moment, everything seems to work. Fingers crossed.