Win98se went tits up! Sys ini wacked ! (oops send me to OS board)

[Helznicht]

Turned my pc on this morning, booted into windows, ran for about 15 seconds, and got a BSOD. Rebooted, after scandisking, windows goes to a registry checker screen. It then tells me my SYS.ini file is corrupted and it is loading a backup. Now, its all wierded out, I now have my old printer in windows, but on boot, it detected my new printer. It is seeing hardware I no longer have in. Its a mess.

So your opinion, try to fix each problem as I find them, or just do a clean install of Windows?

 

[JERR]

Clean install seems best course.
Did you run SCANDISK yourself after booting to dos with CD support from the win98 CD? You might want to run CHKDSK too ( I forget which one actually fixes problems).

 

[Adul]

chkdsk is for win2k, winnt


Chkdsk went away for scandisk which works better, and is more thorough.

Try a clean install. I wouldn't bother with rebuilding that inin file.

 

[bacillus]

I agree, a clean reinstall would be the best way to go!