stevemac
June 6th 04, 08:16 PM
I recently got the blue screen of death while running age of empires. Had a pretty bad crash. when rebooted i lost allmy shortcuts and drivers for most applications.
also got messages while booting that alot of things were wacked and that i should run scandisk and defrag and all that jazz. I did this, it said it fixed all kindsof KB's worth of errors. However i believe i am still missing alot of exe. programs and stuff for windows. For instance it will not let me shut-down and start-up in dos mode anymore, not that i know anything about dos. And lost the ability to get microsoft updates because it says windows installer no longer works, i can no longer access windows help or doctor watson.
I tried to re-install windows 98 off the disk hoping it would overlap with what files i have working correctly and fill in the blanks for the one's i am missing, and it goes to start and says that it cannot check my drives, and that i have to check them by running scan-disk in dos. But i cannot re-start in does because i am missing some sort of execute. can i do a full install on windows 98 without losing all the documents, artwork and programs i have in my system?
also got messages while booting that alot of things were wacked and that i should run scandisk and defrag and all that jazz. I did this, it said it fixed all kindsof KB's worth of errors. However i believe i am still missing alot of exe. programs and stuff for windows. For instance it will not let me shut-down and start-up in dos mode anymore, not that i know anything about dos. And lost the ability to get microsoft updates because it says windows installer no longer works, i can no longer access windows help or doctor watson.
I tried to re-install windows 98 off the disk hoping it would overlap with what files i have working correctly and fill in the blanks for the one's i am missing, and it goes to start and says that it cannot check my drives, and that i have to check them by running scan-disk in dos. But i cannot re-start in does because i am missing some sort of execute. can i do a full install on windows 98 without losing all the documents, artwork and programs i have in my system?