Re: AVG on Win 98 problem starting up

Art wrote:
On Thu, 18 May 2006 00:58:50 GMT, Ike Milligan <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Ha! No wonder it didn't work the first time. I have Nero, but I am not sure it is a full version of Nero, but an OEM which came with the laptop. Therefore I used another OEM CD burning program which seemed to offer either a data or music CD. Nero looked like it was for music only.

What you want to use is just the basic data burn mode which allows you
to add more files later if you want. It's the same as for music files
actually.

OK I will print this out and use my Win 98 boot disk.

I guess you surmised that the purpose of the Win 98 boot disk is
simply to provide CD ROM drive access. A Win ME boot disk works just
as well for the purpose.

I have several of them lying around that I used to use when I was running Win 9x/ME that also boot the CD and assign a drive letter to it. I also have "PC Doctor" which creates these disks for me the easy way. I used to write the Config.sys and the autoexec.bat by hand, but that was a couple of years ago and I don't remember exactly how I did that.

I took an old machine out of the storage shed, thinking it was Win 98 but it was the wrong one, looked like the right one but was an untested clone from the roadside, so I brought it upstairs and the HD didn't run, and I haven't had time to look inside the case to see why. My wife threatens to leave every time I use the house for anything interesting.

:)

Also have Nero on my main XP machine, but it had a configuration problem since it came with the external CD burner, and had not the time or patience to change the settings, and now neither the external CD burner nor the one that came with the HP Pavilion box, that I initially turned off (to make Nero work with th external one) are working, which leaves the laptop if I want to burn a CD. So I copy everything to a 4 gig thumb drive, attach it to the laptop and then burn the CD.

Well, it's unfortunate that def files have grown so large in total
file size that the use of diskettes is no longer realisitic.
Personally, I detest CDs. I've had all kinds of problems with them.
Be nice to be able to copy all the required files to a small capacity
hard drive that's been made bootable, and plug it in to the ailing PC
as a secondary master. Set the BIOS to boot from HDD1 instead of HDD0
and you're off and running :)

Art
http://home.epix.net/~artnpeg

It worked. Scanned the HD and deleted 44 infected trojan files and the start page virus. I haven't heard yet if Windows will boot properly. I had to leave before I got a chance to test the boot-up thoroughly. Did upgrade to Me also.
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