Re: HELP!! What a mess I got!!

On Jul 6, 1:39 am, "Alex Taylor" <mail...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sat, 5 Jul 2008 00:39:54 UTC, Snydley <snydl...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
That didn't uninstall it. So in the middle of all this madness I hit
the reset button out of frustration. It booted back up, ran chkdsk on
C:, gave me the Soundblaster error, and an error about com.sys and
vcom.sys, and D: needing chkdsk, then onto the desktop. After about 2
sec., the desktop disappeared, and I could see what looks like desktop
borders disappearing, then I get an error that says: SYS2070  A
program in this session encountered a problem and cannot continue
END.... / DISPLAY....
When I select Display register info. it says: "The system could not
demand load the application's segment. FTPAPI is in error. For
additional details type: HELP193".
Then I select "End", the computer boots to the desktop, the hard drive
finally stops "clacking", after 2 seconds the desktop disappears and
the whole thing starts all over again. It's in a loop!! It will never
stop at the destop like it normally would. After 2 seconds it loops
again, untill it stops at the error.

Sounds like your desktop is hosed.  The normal fix is to either restore it
from archive, or recreate it from templates.  

So far I tried "Alt - F1"  but I can't get it to bring up the console..

Why not?  What happens?

I have utility disks, but when I boot with them and try to run TEDIT
to edit C:\config.sys I get an message: "Cannot open file".

Probably because the dirty flag is set.  You can't access any files on the
hard disk until you run CHKDSK /F on it.

In any case, I doubt CONFIG.SYS is the problem, more likely it's your
desktop INI files (OS2.INI and OS2SYS.INI).  If you get the Alt-F1
recovery console working, you can restore the files from there.  Otherwise
I think you may be able to use ARCRECOV manually from a command line...

HELP!! If anyone can help, PLEASE. :-) I could format the drive and re-
install everything again,(the only remedy I can make work), but I HAD
it running pretty good when it was in the old Pentium, and I really
don't want to go through all that installing again if I can fix it
CORRECTLY.

Shouldn't be necessary.  Hosed INI files happen from time to time, but
rarely require a reinstall.

--
Alex Taylor
Fukushima, Japanhttp://www.socis.ca/~ataylo00

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I was finally able to use ALT-F1 to get to the console. I wasn't
pressing ALT-F1 quick enough, I guess, before and it was passing
right by it. I used the option to recover my archive and as it was
recovering, it said "Recovering KEY files" and then the hard drive
just froze. I noticed last night that it was "clacking" and making a
heck of a racket, I think it finally gave out. I rebooted it to see
what would happen, and the computer now says "DISK BOOT FAILURE,
INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER". I kinda had the feeling it was on
it's way out because ever since I resurrected this thing that hard
drive would only boot if the jumper was on SLAVE. It's done it's job I
guess. It's a Western Digital Caviar 31600, and it's been in many
machines over the years, guess it was just it's turn to crap out. I've
got another Caviar 31200 from Aug '95 that I can try. If this is no
good, it's time to go shopping :-)
Just so I can try to avoid this happening again, can you recommend a
disk imaging, or backup program that'll work with Warp4? If I get
things this far along this time I want to have a backup in case this
drive decides to "go south" with it's brother. :-)
Thanks,
Rick
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