My kids computer going berserk - Help!!!

[akaristos2]

System is an Athlon based system with 128MB and AK72 Acer motherboard, several hard disks and the now infamous CDROM/DVD 220E. For starter, it never loads at the first run when turning machine on. Needs always a second boost via reset button. Secondly, now when I instruct for "Shut Down", it RESTARTs. I run scandisk several times. I was unable to re-install windows98 SE. It hangs after starting to copy files (about 15-20%). I have installed lately a 13GB Maxtor 5400rpm hard disk (E: drive). Would like to move selected directories and files to that HD including system and then proceed with formatting C: drive (About 1.5GB) and re-installing on it the OS (win98SE). What should be the process and specific steps I need to resolve these problems before my kids become so impatient. Any help, support, recommendations would be most appreciated. Thank you.

 

[Theslowone]

Two things, one is update bios, two is reinstall even if it requires a format.
To move the files you can do it from dos. say you wanted to copy something from C drive to your D drive if you start in C: you could: copy filename D:\directory you want it at.

 

[MGMorden]

Actually, if you want to move directories AND files with them then you must use xcopy instead of copy.

So if you want to copy c:\data to your e: you would type:

xcopy /e c:\data e:\

And then let it go. Please note that if you do copy files from dos then if they were created in windows w/ long filenames then you're going to get truncated names after a dos copy.