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11-21-2001, 07:59 AM
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Originally posted by Darkpoet:
<STRONG>Ah, the wise one has returned.  *Dp bows*</STRONG>
| Even during the major computer crisis, I have to have lunch. 
(Had pick'n mix salad from cafeteria, just in case you want to know. )
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11-21-2001, 08:03 AM
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11-22-2001, 04:14 AM
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| | UPDATE: Nothing to update...
because there's no change! 
My computer recognizes CD-ROM while in Windows, but doesn't in MS-DOS mode. I need it to reinstall Win98.
According to the Troubleshooting, I should check "autoexec.dos" and "config.dos" to find the lines containing MSCDEX to copy them into "autoexec.bat" and "config.sys" respectively. However, I can't find them anywhere!
Windows recognize CD-ROM, when I start in the normal mode (that's an improvement, actually...), but what can I do from here? 
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11-22-2001, 07:51 AM
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11-22-2001, 07:56 AM
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11-22-2001, 08:16 AM
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Originally posted by Minerva:
<STRONG>Thanks. I'm really sick and tired of this... It's particularly difficult, because my machine is miles away when I'm here to post.</STRONG>
| Shame you couldn't loan out a laptop of somekind, so you can connect up at home.
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11-22-2001, 08:42 AM
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Originally posted by Mr Sleep:
<STRONG>Shame you couldn't loan out a laptop of somekind, so you can connect up at home.</STRONG>
| I know.
Well, I'm going home now, and try it out. If it won't be any better, I will carry it up the hill to the computer centre tomorrow.
Thank you for the advice. See you. 
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11-22-2001, 09:11 AM
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11-22-2001, 04:09 PM
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At last! I'm posting from home, though I had to connect Online Express first to get internet connection. Explorer didn't connect itself... Why? 
Also, the computer refused to recognize it has a CD-RW. Each time I try, it goes blue screen with "fatal error" messages.
Anyway, I will take my computer tomorrow the university's computer centre, which kindly offered me to look into it. If it doesn't work, I shall have a great fun reformatting and reinstalling everything from scratch during this weekend...
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11-23-2001, 05:58 AM
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| | UPDATE: No more connection from home...
It froze after 10 minutes and now I cannot access to GB, even though I can connec to the internet. Windows doesn't like me to do something different, I think... I HAD ENOUGH!! And I believe so do everyone else to hear from me about my mad computer. Therefore, I decided to reformat, then reinstall everything from scratch.
Thank you all for the kindly advice. I hope I can speak to you soon, even after I go ahead with reformatting from this evening...
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11-23-2001, 06:12 AM
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Glad to hear you made progress, i can't think why it doesn't recognise your CD-RW, have you got all your data?
Reinstalling can be fun
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11-23-2001, 06:19 AM
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Originally posted by Mr Sleep:
<STRONG>Glad to hear you made progress, i can't think why it doesn't recognise your CD-RW, have you got all your data?
Reinstalling can be fun </STRONG>
| I rescued a bit of unreplaceable staff, like my thesis, old essays, saved games (very important ), and a few letters and emails.
I don't know what's the matter with the CD... It doesn't automatically start (I have checked the connection and jumper switch), and the "My Computer" doesn't open. Both time, I get blue screen with fatal error messages.
So, I am going to exchange my old hard drive, as my new drive is faster (as you know), run FDISK, reformat, maybe add another memory, then reinstall.
Is this the right order? 
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11-23-2001, 06:32 AM
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Originally posted by Minerva:
<STRONG>I don't know what's the matter with the CD... It doesn't automatically start (I have checked the connection and jumper switch), and the "My Computer" doesn't open. Both time, I get blue screen with fatal error messages.
So, I am going to exchange my old hard drive, as my new drive is faster (as you know), run FDISK, reformat, maybe add another memory, then reinstall.
Is this the right order? </STRONG>
| Since you are going to scrap current setup and reinstall then the my computer issues don't matter too mcuh Sounds almost like something malicious though.
Well you can't really go wrong re-formatting, F Disk and format the old one fist then add the second one and F Disk that, it is pretty self explanatory, hope if goes well I could run through it all in PM if you wish
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11-23-2001, 06:38 AM
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Thanks, Mr Sleep. PM would be helpful.
Why should I run Fdisk on the old one first? I mean, the new one will be the master drive, so deal with it first. Or both together...
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11-23-2001, 06:58 AM
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@Minerva, I would recommend you do your reformatting and install windows from your start up disk with your old CDRom in place. Once this is done, replace your CDRW and use the add new hardware option in control panel
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