Recent content by ralljtall

thanks to all who offered support for my issue. i ended up reinstalling 98se and it's working great. i don't see any evidence of data that was on the pc prior to the install but i don't suppose there is anything to be done about that. i was never able to boot in safe mode, mainegeek, not for...

after making your suggested entries to the config and autoexec, i get dos errors related to each entry. i checked the msdos.sys and found that it is currently empty. perhaps it needs to contain something in order for the config and autoexec to be functional. i appreciate your diligence in...

buckeye - i found scanreg on my daughters 98 cd and copied it to my boot floppy. i was able to run it but it says no registry backup info was found. i would prefer not to fresh install on the os since the hd was not backed up (no burner or network). would appreciate any other suggestions. by the...

i get 'bad command or file name' when i try scanreg. do i need to clean out config.sys and autoexec.bat first? it acts like the scanreg utility is not present.

My daughter has an old P-133 running win98se. She downloaded something from the web. Next cold boot the os would not load. I had her look for the config.sys and autoexec.bat but neither was found. Is there a minimum setup for these files that win98se requires to launch? I tried to build what I...