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windows 98 SE fails to install
hope there is some help out there. I have a computer that ran windows 98 SE.
My kid got a virus on it, so bad, that it could not boot up. (Of course she did not say anything and kept trying to reboot so I can not turn the system back to the last clean boot). I removed the hard drive and did a virus scan from another computer. Bingo, there wiere a combination of 119 Viruses, Tojans and Mal Ware. I scanned it again using a different antivirus software on a different computer and it was clean. I copied all documents, pictures, worksheets etc onto a CD to save information. Put back the hard drive and tried to boot up and it stalls. I went into safemode and tried again. It runs through the Windows Setup screen, by stalls at the configuring system step. I let it run for 24 hour and it remaine at 6 bars across the bottom. Obviously the virus attacked some critical portion of windows, but I do not know what part. I have all the CDs that came with the computer, but not sure of the proper steps to reinstall windows. I really do not want to reformat the hard drive. This computer has a couple of games that do not work with XP, so my kid wants it back to play those games. If I can get it working it will still be good for the under age 10 crowd in the house. Any pointers greatfull appreciated. -- gray57 just want to learn more |
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windows 98 SE fails to install
gray57 wrote:
I have a computer that ran windows 98 SE. My kid got a virus on it I removed the hard drive and did a virus scan from another computer. I copied all documents, pictures, worksheets etc onto a CD to save information. Put back the hard drive and tried to boot up and it stalls. Any pointers greatfull appreciated. My primary suggestion would be to purchase a new drive. An 80 gb IDE drive would cost about $40 or $50 bucks, and would probably be the smallest capacity (and least expensive) drive that you can still easily purchase new. I suggest buying a new drive because your existing drive is probably 5 to 10 years old and is probably very close to the end of it's mechanical life. But in any case, even if you keep using the original drive, the best course of action would be to reformat it and reinstall windows 98. There is no easy, automatic, or zero-cost way to run a repair program on the drive to "freshen up" the files and surgically remove all remnants of viral activity, repair any registry dammage or file dammage, etc. Such programs don't exist. I'm thinking that you no longer have a win-98 installation CD. You can obtain one from a torrent very easily. The only hassle with re-installing win-98 is that you'll (probably) have to hunt down the motherboard and video drivers and have them ready to install once the initial win-98 install has finished. Taking out the drive and slaving it to another computer (presumably a windows XP machine) was a good idea as far as scanning it for malware. But the best you can do in that situation is remove the mal-files, scan the drive for bad sectors and repair the file system (cross-linked sectors) and defrag it. I guess you could try to start it in DOS mode (press f8 repeatedly while it's booting so you get the startup menu, select command prompt, then run the command "scanreg /fix". If that doesn't work, then try again, but this time enter the command "scanreg /restore" and select an older version of the registry (select them all, one at a time, until you run out of selections or the system starts normally). If Win-98 isin't starting for you (if instead it's trying to re-install itself) then you're best off formatting the drive and performing a correct installation from a win-98 CD. |
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windows 98 SE fails to install
gray57 wrote:
I have a computer that ran windows 98 SE. My kid got a virus on it I removed the hard drive and did a virus scan from another computer. I copied all documents, pictures, worksheets etc onto a CD to save information. Put back the hard drive and tried to boot up and it stalls. Any pointers greatfull appreciated. My primary suggestion would be to purchase a new drive. An 80 gb IDE drive would cost about $40 or $50 bucks, and would probably be the smallest capacity (and least expensive) drive that you can still easily purchase new. I suggest buying a new drive because your existing drive is probably 5 to 10 years old and is probably very close to the end of it's mechanical life. But in any case, even if you keep using the original drive, the best course of action would be to reformat it and reinstall windows 98. There is no easy, automatic, or zero-cost way to run a repair program on the drive to "freshen up" the files and surgically remove all remnants of viral activity, repair any registry dammage or file dammage, etc. Such programs don't exist. I'm thinking that you no longer have a win-98 installation CD. You can obtain one from a torrent very easily. The only hassle with re-installing win-98 is that you'll (probably) have to hunt down the motherboard and video drivers and have them ready to install once the initial win-98 install has finished. Taking out the drive and slaving it to another computer (presumably a windows XP machine) was a good idea as far as scanning it for malware. But the best you can do in that situation is remove the mal-files, scan the drive for bad sectors and repair the file system (cross-linked sectors) and defrag it. I guess you could try to start it in DOS mode (press f8 repeatedly while it's booting so you get the startup menu, select command prompt, then run the command "scanreg /fix". If that doesn't work, then try again, but this time enter the command "scanreg /restore" and select an older version of the registry (select them all, one at a time, until you run out of selections or the system starts normally). If Win-98 isin't starting for you (if instead it's trying to re-install itself) then you're best off formatting the drive and performing a correct installation from a win-98 CD. |
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windows 98 SE fails to install
Thanks for the help. I thought it was pretty much a lost cause. I do have
all the original disks and product key codes, so I guess I will reformat and reinstall. -- gray57 just want to learn more "98 Guy" wrote: gray57 wrote: I have a computer that ran windows 98 SE. My kid got a virus on it I removed the hard drive and did a virus scan from another computer. I copied all documents, pictures, worksheets etc onto a CD to save information. Put back the hard drive and tried to boot up and it stalls. Any pointers greatfull appreciated. My primary suggestion would be to purchase a new drive. An 80 gb IDE drive would cost about $40 or $50 bucks, and would probably be the smallest capacity (and least expensive) drive that you can still easily purchase new. I suggest buying a new drive because your existing drive is probably 5 to 10 years old and is probably very close to the end of it's mechanical life. But in any case, even if you keep using the original drive, the best course of action would be to reformat it and reinstall windows 98. There is no easy, automatic, or zero-cost way to run a repair program on the drive to "freshen up" the files and surgically remove all remnants of viral activity, repair any registry dammage or file dammage, etc. Such programs don't exist. I'm thinking that you no longer have a win-98 installation CD. You can obtain one from a torrent very easily. The only hassle with re-installing win-98 is that you'll (probably) have to hunt down the motherboard and video drivers and have them ready to install once the initial win-98 install has finished. Taking out the drive and slaving it to another computer (presumably a windows XP machine) was a good idea as far as scanning it for malware. But the best you can do in that situation is remove the mal-files, scan the drive for bad sectors and repair the file system (cross-linked sectors) and defrag it. I guess you could try to start it in DOS mode (press f8 repeatedly while it's booting so you get the startup menu, select command prompt, then run the command "scanreg /fix". If that doesn't work, then try again, but this time enter the command "scanreg /restore" and select an older version of the registry (select them all, one at a time, until you run out of selections or the system starts normally). If Win-98 isin't starting for you (if instead it's trying to re-install itself) then you're best off formatting the drive and performing a correct installation from a win-98 CD. |
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windows 98 SE fails to install
Thanks for the help. I thought it was pretty much a lost cause. I do have
all the original disks and product key codes, so I guess I will reformat and reinstall. -- gray57 just want to learn more "98 Guy" wrote: gray57 wrote: I have a computer that ran windows 98 SE. My kid got a virus on it I removed the hard drive and did a virus scan from another computer. I copied all documents, pictures, worksheets etc onto a CD to save information. Put back the hard drive and tried to boot up and it stalls. Any pointers greatfull appreciated. My primary suggestion would be to purchase a new drive. An 80 gb IDE drive would cost about $40 or $50 bucks, and would probably be the smallest capacity (and least expensive) drive that you can still easily purchase new. I suggest buying a new drive because your existing drive is probably 5 to 10 years old and is probably very close to the end of it's mechanical life. But in any case, even if you keep using the original drive, the best course of action would be to reformat it and reinstall windows 98. There is no easy, automatic, or zero-cost way to run a repair program on the drive to "freshen up" the files and surgically remove all remnants of viral activity, repair any registry dammage or file dammage, etc. Such programs don't exist. I'm thinking that you no longer have a win-98 installation CD. You can obtain one from a torrent very easily. The only hassle with re-installing win-98 is that you'll (probably) have to hunt down the motherboard and video drivers and have them ready to install once the initial win-98 install has finished. Taking out the drive and slaving it to another computer (presumably a windows XP machine) was a good idea as far as scanning it for malware. But the best you can do in that situation is remove the mal-files, scan the drive for bad sectors and repair the file system (cross-linked sectors) and defrag it. I guess you could try to start it in DOS mode (press f8 repeatedly while it's booting so you get the startup menu, select command prompt, then run the command "scanreg /fix". If that doesn't work, then try again, but this time enter the command "scanreg /restore" and select an older version of the registry (select them all, one at a time, until you run out of selections or the system starts normally). If Win-98 isin't starting for you (if instead it's trying to re-install itself) then you're best off formatting the drive and performing a correct installation from a win-98 CD. |
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windows 98 SE fails to install
"gray57" wrote in message ...
hope there is some help out there. I have a computer that ran windows 98 SE. My kid got a virus on it, so bad, that it could not boot up. (Of course she did not say anything and kept trying to reboot so I can not turn the system back to the last clean boot). I removed the hard drive and did a virus scan from another computer. Bingo, there wiere a combination of 119 Viruses, Tojans and Mal Ware. I scanned it again using a different antivirus software on a different computer and it was clean. I copied all documents, pictures, worksheets etc onto a CD to save information. Put back the hard drive and tried to boot up and it stalls. I went into safemode and tried again. It runs through the Windows Setup screen, by stalls at the configuring system step. I let it run for 24 hour and it remaine at 6 bars across the bottom. snip Go into the BIOS setup and see if boot virus protection is enabled. If so, disable it. Be sure the save the settings when exiting. If this doesn't help, try cleaning the Windows 98 CD or copying the setup files to the hard drive and running setup from there. Ben |
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windows 98 SE fails to install
"gray57" wrote in message ...
hope there is some help out there. I have a computer that ran windows 98 SE. My kid got a virus on it, so bad, that it could not boot up. (Of course she did not say anything and kept trying to reboot so I can not turn the system back to the last clean boot). I removed the hard drive and did a virus scan from another computer. Bingo, there wiere a combination of 119 Viruses, Tojans and Mal Ware. I scanned it again using a different antivirus software on a different computer and it was clean. I copied all documents, pictures, worksheets etc onto a CD to save information. Put back the hard drive and tried to boot up and it stalls. I went into safemode and tried again. It runs through the Windows Setup screen, by stalls at the configuring system step. I let it run for 24 hour and it remaine at 6 bars across the bottom. snip Go into the BIOS setup and see if boot virus protection is enabled. If so, disable it. Be sure the save the settings when exiting. If this doesn't help, try cleaning the Windows 98 CD or copying the setup files to the hard drive and running setup from there. Ben |
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