h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Hello

This is someone you know from the campfire of chaos, among other places, hiding out from the FBI under another guise.

Grey dear, do you know owt about computers?

It's me again

I'm spamming people with this in the hope that SOMEONE may see it and suggest summat afore I actually implode with frustration.

Taliesin said:

>>Here's the procedure for installing win98 from the hard drive:

>>From the DOS prompt:
>>* Make sure you have DOS access to your CD-ROM drive. DOS CD >>drivers are available on your win98 startup floppy, or from the UBD

At which point I was already hopelessly lost 'cos ah divvent kna how tae mek sewer ah hev DOS access tae the CD-ROM drive...

So, in the absence of any friendly I just fiddled while Rome burned and when the Windows Setup said "Look Kiddo, this isn't an upgrade copy and you already have Windows on your system. Are you sure you want to do this?" I said "Just get on with it Mate"



I now have two lots of Windows installed on poor old Sid.
Windows #1 has all my programs, favourites, dial-up connections etc attached to it, but doesn't work.

Windows.000 is the one the pooter is running, but it isn't attached to aught.

I was wondering whether I might be able to repair the original and then uninstall the new one, or somehow get the new one to recognise all the old content and then uninstall the old one.

The old one had never actually worked properly so the second option would probably be better.

The third option is hara-kiri.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!!!

Any ideas?

Oh 'eck sorry I didn't see you there yesterday.

First off, I am no techno at all. So what ever I say, I would ignore it.

I'll tell you what I did when I had a major crash a few weeks back. I worked out what programs and stuff I wanted to keep and burnt them onto CDRs then reinstalled everything. Now I did some of the stuff wrong as I only copied whole directories from c:/program files and didn't copy the install/unistall parts that were lying round and about. Therefore I had problems getting some things to work again once my system was restored.

Ultimately I think you need to talk to someone who is qualified in these things. And I'm afraid that person ain't me

* leaves large quantities of to help the healing process *

Thanks for the Grey.

I had only copied whole directories from c:/program files as well but maybe I can still get into them and try again.
Peet has just said it may be possible to fix the old copy...

I have to try summat and get back to him.

Cross everything for me please.

Can I start uncrossing things yet? Its getting rather hard to walk with all me mangled toes!

Sorry Grey. I haven't been online for days.

We were up till 3.30am and still hadn't fixed it, but managed the next day.
Thank you so much for keeping everything crossed. Ah hope ye hevn't gangrene noo.

*hobbles*

Good to know it got fixed ok