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Using dos to fix 98 start up problem?

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Moonbeam

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My buddies computer will not boot after he pulled an @home folder off of C and stored it somewhere else. We used SYS on the 98 startup disk and can now get the safe mode screen, but it goes to the C prompt instead of windows. Somebody told him to reinstall windows, that they had done so about twelve times and only lost everything twice. My friend is a singer and has transcribed alot of tapes of gigs onto his machine and doesn't want to loose them. He also hasn't had the money for any backup hardware. I was wondering, since he can see C would he go in there from a boot floppy and move the @home folder back over to C in DOS. If you think so and know the commands to hunt through a C drive to find a folder and how to move it could you give me a clue. I don't know how to explore copy or move stuff in dos. Thanks

There's another thread with 98 startup problems and may try too:


brow
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06/13/2002 1:45 PM



Well, if the registry is what is corrupt, I would try going to a command prompt instead of safe mode, then type "scanreg /restore" (without the quotes, of course), and try out one or more of the recent registry backups.. If that doesn't work you're probably looking at reinstalling
 
Im not sure about moving the folder, but you can copy it :

copy [sourcedrive]:[path]\ *.* [destinationdrive]:[path]\*.*
the *.* will copy all files in a folder.

ex
copy d:\mydocs\@home\*.* c:\whateverfolderitbelongsin\@home\*.*

hope this helps
 
if u reinstall windows right over the current windows partition, u will not lose any data. right after the computer POSTs, press F8 a few times, and u will get a boot menu. try booting normally. if it hangs... restart & go to the boot menu again and try safe mode. if it still hangs... pull out all unneccesary hardware... that is everything except he cpu w/cooling, ram, video card, & hard drive. then try booting again (both normally & to safe mode). i'm wondering whether this problem is hardware or software based.
 
Thanks gentubu, we tried on the telephone but the file wasn't found where he thought he left it. We gotta figure out tomotrrow how to search directories in dos I guess, or try something else maybe like spanky suggests.

We think it's software cause it wouldn't reboot after he moved that @home file

Also tried brow's suggestion that's in my first post. At the c prompt he typed scanreg /restore hit enter, but it's a bad file command so I guess we don't know how to use that command properly.
 
i used to use @home cable... i don't think the @home software had anything to do with the computer booting. have u tried to move the @home folder back over in dos? btw, when u boot into safe mode... u mean windows' safe mode, or the dos safe mode?
 
windows safe mode and moving the folder back in dos is exactly what I'm trying to try. gentobu provided the methodology, but we have to figure out how to find where he stuck the file, it wasn't on the desktop like he first thought, by learning how to navigate the windows folder from dos to look for it.
 
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