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Startup Problems windows won't start

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Posted 05 November 2005 - 01:35 PM

First, I would only get a blinking cursor in the upper left corner. Using the startup disk, I can get to the DOS prompt. Safemode will not start either. I was messing around and copied some system files onto the C drive (following suggestions on the readme.txt file) Now the windows startup screen comes up before I get messages that DBBUFF.SYS, IFSHLP.SYS are missing or corrupted and WIN.COM cannot be found.

Second, I only have the Windows98 Upgrade CD. When reinstalling, I would have to load the OLD Windows3.1 disks in order to use the upgrade CD. Now however, the first diskette is corrupted. I really don't want to get XP. Should I fork out some money for an OEM 98SE CD?

All this is happening on a Celeron700 with I-don't know-how-much RAM.

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Posted 05 November 2005 - 01:43 PM

At the DOS prompt C:\ run scandisk and let us know what turns up.
Just type C:\scandisk and hit enter.
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Posted 05 November 2005 - 01:44 PM

How rude of me .:thumbsup: to BC :flowers:
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Posted 05 November 2005 - 08:39 PM

View Postacklan, on Nov 5 2005, 10:43 AM, said:

At the DOS prompt C:\ run scandisk and let us know what turns up.
Just type C:\scandisk and hit enter.



:thumbsup: It turned up all kinds of problems, corrupt files, ect. A few dozen fragments, lots of files from my TOPO! that needed fixing. Then, with all that done, I restarted and got the same error messages.

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Posted 05 November 2005 - 08:56 PM

It may only fix a few items at one time. Try re-running it several times. You may want to run defrag. C:\defrag
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Posted 07 November 2005 - 03:55 PM

View Postacklan, on Nov 5 2005, 05:56 PM, said:

It may only fix a few items at one time. Try re-running it several times. You may want to run defrag. C:\defrag


I reran scandisk with no new discoveries. When I type Defrag at the C:\ prompt I am told there is no such program.

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