Windows ME problems

[miAlien]

I did a clean install on a hard drive and everything goes fine when im installing programs drivers ect but then a couple of days pass and it tells me there is a problem with the registry and i cant get into windows or safe mode. Also i had another problem where the computer just stayed in the windows me loading screen. MY computer sepcifis are:

Abit motherboard
Pentium3 650
Asus geforce v6660
sound blaster live!value
128 megabytes of ram
and a 20.4 maxtor 5400rpm hardrive

 

[jsbush]

That's windows ME for you, it's got lots of bugs. I've switched so far 3 out of my 4 computers back to win98se cus ME got way to many bugs.

 

[laper]

Amen. 3 of 4 for me already switched back to SE. 4th is not far behind.

 

[TravisBickle]

BTW, "ect" is something phoney docs give flakes.
I think you mean etcetera.
But seriously. Have you actually looked at the registry? Use the DOS disk. I think your hardware is pretty safe except for the geforce, what drivers is that using?

 

[miAlien]

Ok now i tried to reformat the harddrive and it just freezes on 4%

The hard drive is probably damaged right?

 

[bookem dano]

run scandisk with advanced options to do a surface scan.

 

[AC]

not necessarily...bad motherboard or RAM could also cause the system to freeze...corruption of the registry happens when it isn't written completely or correctly from memory to disk

 

[Zeppy]

Run a scandisk from DOS and see how that reacts. If it goes ok then load from a boot disk and format from there.

 

[AC]

i don't think u can run scandisk without a formatted partition to scan