🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sun, 02 Nov 1997 07:57:50 -0800, tanman <tanman@lv.rmci.net> wrote:

>Since my wife will be out of town until Mon, I decided to fool around
>with her computer and install win95 so I could play with it instead of
>using my system.  Well all hell broke loose and I had to uninstall it.
>All of a sudden the computer would not boot into the C Drive.  So being
>a nitwit, I reformated the C drive hoping this would do the trick.  But
>it still will not boot up in C.  I have to use a Emergency disk in the
>Adrive to boot up.
>
>Then after I get the dos prompt in A, I cd to C and do a check on the C
>drive using different utilities which shows the c drive is there and no
>errors on it.  I used MSD, Norton, and PC Tools and they all show the C
>drive is there and formated to 450 megs and everything in order.
>
>However as soon as I take the emergency disk out of the A drive and
>power on I get the bios showing 32 megs of ram and then showing 1 fixed
>HD, 1 floppy drive, 1 Parrallel port, 1 serial port like it should, but
>then it stops the screen is blank with a little blinking cursor in the
>upper left of the screen.  I have to ctl-alt-del and insert the
>emergency disk and then it works.
>
>Can anyone help me out before the wife gets home so I can get this
>system working again.  All info would be appreciated.  I.   I will be
>monitoring the NG and Email very closely hoping some knowledgeable
>person can get me out of this fix.
>
>Thanks in advance.  Don
>
Some fast advice for you, Don:

Get everything sharp out of the house.( Remember what happened 
to a guy named Bobbit?)