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Article #312Re: Wife is going to kill me
From: Ray KC2AYO
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 1997 00:00
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 1997 00:00
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On Mon, 03 Nov 1997 11:16:57 -0600, Jim Lafleur <nospam@hotmail.com> wrote: > > >tanman 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. >> -- -- -- S N I P ! ! -- -- -- >> >> 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 > >This is a software problem, no big problem, try this: >1) the emergency disk sounds like a win95 not win3.x >2) you need to add system files to c: drive >3) put your emergency rescue disk in a: >4) at prompt type sys c: >5) then reinstall win95 > Boy, did HE screw up! Point of the matter is that installing win95 or win3.1x is only half the battle. He's also got to reinstall/restore ALL of her applications and data files. Lesson for the wise, if you wanna play, screw around with your OWN computer, AFTER you've done a complete backup, never, EVER screw with someone elses system, EVEN if she IS your wife... -==*>Ray - KC2AYO<*==- ------------------------------------- In the grander scheme of things, the historical value of what we have done here is nil. -- proverb -------------------------------------
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f8e37,49d919137faf3eec X-Google-Attributes: gidf8e37,public X-Google-Thread: 112149,49d919137faf3eec X-Google-Attributes: gid112149,public X-Google-Thread: 109e38,49d919137faf3eec X-Google-Attributes: gid109e38,public X-Google-Thread: 1045b9,49d919137faf3eec X-Google-Attributes: gid1045b9,public X-Google-Thread: 10a2ed,49d919137faf3eec X-Google-Attributes: gid10a2ed,public From: rsirois@stny.lrun.com (Ray KC2AYO) Subject: Re: Wife is going to kill me Date: 1997/11/04 Message-ID: <345e8933.597144@news-server> X-Deja-AN: 286873599 References: <3479776b.16050497@read.news.globalnet.co.uk> <344FEBAF.6889@ix.netcom.com> <34519927.58B7@indiana.edu> <630uk7$d2e$1@siesta.packet.net> <631rae$588@bgtnsc01.worldnet.att.net> <6345ni$8f1$1@dove.qut.edu.au> <34569f01.3945771@news.v-wave.com> <63757v$dt6@bgtnsc01.worldnet.att.net> <63gvrp$h0t$1@news1.epix.net> <345CA2FE.F88F3734@lv.rmci.net> <63l0uc$7q@server4.softdisk.com> Organization: The Lost Chord BBS 607-733-5745 Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,biz.comp.hardware,comp.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc