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My screen shows the Blue HP screen and then Wham! the message about the
DISK BOOT ERROR< PLEASE INSERT SYSTEM DISK. all I do at that point is hit the
ENTER button and all runs like normal.
Someone said it was a Hardware rpoblem, I do not agree. Once I hit enter
all is great and I have run Nortons, Windoctor, Disk Doctor, Ccleaner, etc. I
have run Spybot with all of the latest updates and everything is fine.
Now what I can tell you all is this. I went to the Microsoft Download site
and I downloaded and installed, the Media Player plus free version, and
installed it. I installed the Office 2003 sp1 patch. and that was it. Afetr
I installed and rebooted, I have had the problem.
Now what I have noticed. I can NOT use System Restore. I have tried
several restore points and they all fail. I have also noticed that my
Autoexec bat is NOW blank as well as config.sys. The only two files that have
anything in them and that is very little is System.ini and win.ini Both have
only about 10 lines in them and I do remember that the system.ini file had
boot and printer stufff etc, now it is basically empty and shows no reference
to any progrmas etc.
Is there a way to have Windows create NEW system.ini and Win.ini files or
do I have to reformat, AGAIN? There is no BAK files in the root directory of
C and I even made certain that ALL files were visible and NOT hidden.
Any suggestions of what to do? The very LAST thing I had done on the
computer prior to seeing a problem was running that 276k malisicous program
finder from the Microsoft website.
Thanks for the help, I really don't want to reformat, again and I have all
these Utilities programs, all of these Safe guards in place and it seems that
the most vulnerable files get changed and there is no fix. The old days every
time something was done to a file a bak file was created. What happened?
Could a Trojan have done some dirty deeds to my system.ini and win.ini etc
and I know there use to be FIVE files under sysedit and now there are only
four.
Thanks
DISK BOOT ERROR< PLEASE INSERT SYSTEM DISK. all I do at that point is hit the
ENTER button and all runs like normal.
Someone said it was a Hardware rpoblem, I do not agree. Once I hit enter
all is great and I have run Nortons, Windoctor, Disk Doctor, Ccleaner, etc. I
have run Spybot with all of the latest updates and everything is fine.
Now what I can tell you all is this. I went to the Microsoft Download site
and I downloaded and installed, the Media Player plus free version, and
installed it. I installed the Office 2003 sp1 patch. and that was it. Afetr
I installed and rebooted, I have had the problem.
Now what I have noticed. I can NOT use System Restore. I have tried
several restore points and they all fail. I have also noticed that my
Autoexec bat is NOW blank as well as config.sys. The only two files that have
anything in them and that is very little is System.ini and win.ini Both have
only about 10 lines in them and I do remember that the system.ini file had
boot and printer stufff etc, now it is basically empty and shows no reference
to any progrmas etc.
Is there a way to have Windows create NEW system.ini and Win.ini files or
do I have to reformat, AGAIN? There is no BAK files in the root directory of
C and I even made certain that ALL files were visible and NOT hidden.
Any suggestions of what to do? The very LAST thing I had done on the
computer prior to seeing a problem was running that 276k malisicous program
finder from the Microsoft website.
Thanks for the help, I really don't want to reformat, again and I have all
these Utilities programs, all of these Safe guards in place and it seems that
the most vulnerable files get changed and there is no fix. The old days every
time something was done to a file a bak file was created. What happened?
Could a Trojan have done some dirty deeds to my system.ini and win.ini etc
and I know there use to be FIVE files under sysedit and now there are only
four.
Thanks