Mike
Sun Feb 29 16:52:58 CST 2004
Wow - that really is good news and I'm so pleased to read that you've managed
to recover your system without having to go through a reformat and uninstall.
Undoing the mess created by cross-linked files can be quite a chore and often
not at all successful.
Since earlier you mentioned cross linked files in he C:\_RESTORE folder may I
suggest you flush this folder and reset system restore so as to start clean.
You can do this as follows:
a) Boot to DOS using a floppy. Do NOT choose "Minimal Boot" from the menu
when booting from a floppy but rather choose "Start computer with (or without)
CD-ROM support" otherwise the ATTRIB command will not be available.
b) At the DOS A:\> prompt, type:
A:\> ATTRIB -H -S -R C:\_RESTORE
A:\> REN C:\_RESTORE OLDREST
c) Remove the floppy
d) Reboot your PC
e) Delete the folder C:\OLDREST
f) Check that an automatic system restore checkpoint was created.
g) Finally adjust the space allocated to the restore folder:
System | Performance | File System | Hard Disk and adjust the restore slider
to your preferred setting. A figure of 200MB is normally more than adequate
for day to day use allowing perhaps a week of checkpoints to be available
although increasing this to perhaps 400MB for a few days during periods of
large installs such Microsoft Office is advisable.
Finally you may want to carry out a quick test of system restore to check that
all is now OK;
a) Create a shortcut on your desktop to a file.
b) Create a manual checkpoint
c) Delete the shortcut
d) Restore you PC to the checkpoint you created.
Was the shortcut restored? Did you see any error messages?
--
Mike Maltby MS-MVP
mcmaltby@hotmail.com
CJ Bennett <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> Unchecking all the startup entries is 'boot option D' as I
> recall and boot failed then too. I tried again and it
> still failed. :(
>
> Upon reflection, the last drivers I updated were for the
> graphics adapter so on a lark (I mean, what else could go
> wrong) I forced a re-install from Display Properties
> (R-click, etc.). When I booted after that, it succeeded
> albeit with nearly no startup entries active (I had left
> startup unchecked from above and now the only ones checked
> were NvMediaCenter, NvCplDaemon, nwiz, NVSvc - presumably
> all NVIDIA stuff).
>
> Although I am still not at "normal" mode I am slowly
> bringing the system back online. Funny thing this. After
> the boot following the reinstall, I went to change the
> display settings (not enough space at 640x480x16) and the
> best I could do was 1024x768x256. So I selected this.
> After the NEXT reboot I was back to 1280x1024xmillions.
> These are my ORIGINAL SETTINGS!
>
> All I can figure now is that one of those cross-linked
> files that I had scan 'clean up' was part of the graphics
> adapter code.
>
> Thanks to Mike M for such a quick response to my first post
> and on a Sunday too.