Suzanne
Sun Apr 17 20:49:56 CDT 2005
I would bet that someone somewhere can tell you what you need to know to get
the old computer to boot. You might try HP Support for a start. I'm afraid
*I* don't know enough to help you, though there are doubtless other regulars
in this forum who do. If you're getting far enough to get an error message
I'd say that's a good sign.
What I was suggesting wrt the CD-burning software is this: My CD software
(Adaptec Easy CD Creator) gives me the option to use DirectCD, which allows
me to treat a CD like a floppy and save files directly to it, or to use the
software to select multiple files to be copied to the CD all at once. I
always use the latter option, but I have a client who evidently uses the
former. At first when he would bring me CDs (before I had a CD burner), I
would just get an error message when I tried to open his files; after I got
the CD burner and software, I noticed that when I open his files, they are
being opend by DirectCD. This is why I suggested that it might be necessary
to have the CD creation software on the new computer. I have no idea whether
this would help or not; it was just a thought.
--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"Mark H" <MarkH@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Suzanne,
>
> No, no, I know better than thatâ?¦ and thanks for helping me hereâ?¦
>
> Of course, I copied the documents from the CD-RW to the hard drive on the
> new machine before trying to open them; but you do raise an interesting
point
> â?? I believe that when periodically backing up My Documents on the old
> machine, I did do just a â??copyâ?? and â??pasteâ?? to the CD-RW rather than
> (properly) using the CD-burning software when backing up. You could be on
to
> something here - this may be the most likely insight to my problem that
I've
> heard yet.
>
> â?¦Iâ??m thinking of loading the CD-RW burning software that is used on the
old
> machine onto the new one, but that probably wonâ??t helpâ?¦I think I need to
use
> the CD burning software to correctly migrate My Documents from the old
> machine to the new one; But, since the â??oldâ?? machine is screwed up, this
may
> be impossibleâ?¦ which brings me to the problem that got me in this mess in
the
> first place â?? Windows 98 decided it didnâ??t want to launch anymore and at
the
> boot I get a DOS prompt that says â?? ERROR LOADING KERNELL â?? RE-INSTALL
> WINDOWSâ??
>
> Well, believe me, as much as I would love to reload windows, I canâ??t. The
> machine (an HP) was not sold with a Windows disk. Just a System Recovery
disk
> which is useless, because, guess what? Windows wonâ??t launch and the
Emergency
> boot diskette isnâ??t being seen during the boot process! Hello! Arrgh!!!
I
> canâ??t even get it into Safe Modeâ?¦
>
> (Hence, the reason I had to buy a new machine! - but I really need to get
> at those documents created on the old one â?? anyway that I canâ?¦)
>
> Mark
>
>
>
>
>
> "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
>
> > I trust you're not trying to open the documents directly from the CD? If
so,
> > try copying them to the HD first. But if they were "saved" to the CD
instead
> > of copied using CD-burning software, there's a good chance they used a
> > proprietary format that requires the CD software to open.
> >
> > --
> > Suzanne S. Barnhill
> > Microsoft MVP (Word)
> > Words into Type
> > Fairhope, Alabama USA
> > Word MVP FAQ site:
http://word.mvps.org
> > Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the
newsgroup so
> > all may benefit.
> >
> > "Mark H" <MarkH@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:C1D24567-0993-45FF-A485-788928CB0A9A@microsoft.com...
> > > It's not. It's set to "All File Types". When I try to open one of the
> > > scrambled documents, a Convert File dialog box pops up. I've tried
opening
> > > the documents with all of the choices available in the Convert File
dialog
> > > and none of them work...
> > >
> > > "Jay Freedman" wrote:
> > >
> > > > In the File > Open dialog, make absolutely sure that the "Files of
> > > > Type" dropdown is *not* set to "Recover text from any file". See
> > > >
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/RecoverText.htm
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Regards,
> > > > Jay Freedman
> > > > Microsoft Word MVP FAQ:
http://word.mvps.org
> > > >
> > > > On Sat, 16 Apr 2005 18:36:01 -0700, Mark H
> > > > <MarkH@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > >Help!
> > > > >
> > > > >I just replaced my old Windows 98 machine with a new computer
running
> > XP. I
> > > > >loaded my copy of Office 2000 on it. Install was fine and smooth. I
> > installed
> > > > >all of the components. Many of my documents created on the old
machine
> > (and
> > > > >were backed up successfully on CD-RW's) open OK on the new
computer,
> > but many
> > > > >more do not. They open all scrambled. Example:
> > > > >
> > > > > @.? â?¢Ã¨Ë?Ã?ý@âu?d½þµ?#Ã?pÅ¡Bæâ??â??ö¿]OSâ?¦TÅ?eâ?¢&â??֌TÃ? ¢è74Ë?'
> > > > >ã ¤¯-5Ã¥Ã?¤\â?¬â??`Ã?Ã?±Ã?iö-Ã?Ã?ç¾µÃïaÃ?â??Uöç÷Ã??
> > > > >Ë?â??ýÃ?â??î?Ã?ª7:/FPjödÃ?¡Ã?â??;¹Ã?â=W¹ûmâ?¹Ã¾VÃ?ÿ¨ïL#â?¡Âzîâ?¬Ã¦^óÃ?
> > > > >Ã?Ã?µÃ?â?¡Ã·Â«O&'±â?¹Ã?Ã??é?ó?[.öÃ?Ã¥z Ã?Ã?Â
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >There must be some settings somewhere that need changing, or some
> > add-on
> > > > >utility I'm missing in order to get these docs to open and display
> > properly.
> > > > >
> > > > >Observation: It seems that the docs that don't respond proper may
very
> > > > >likely contain things like hyperlinks, charts, pictures, or html
> > objects, but
> > > > >not necessarily...
> > > > >
> > > > >Anyone have suggestions on why some docs won't open correctly?
> > > > >
> > > > >Mark
> > > >
> > > >
> >
> >