Okay I have a windows 98 I was trying to install a driver for my mp3 player and I was deleteing old files I was on my documents i opened a strange folder there was two files in it one was uninstall and some numbers I clicked the uninstall file and my computer shut down when I turned it on again everything was working fine untill it got to the welcome screen my desktop picture was enlarged I could move my mouse but the login wasnt there it was like that for a few seconds then it shut itself down again help!!! my entire lifes work is on the machine all I got is a startup floppy disk for windows 98
2007-03-04 05:08:04 · 7 answers · asked by Mauro M 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
I seemed to have confused my answers friends i was deleteing old files but i opend this one first to see what was in it the name of the file was strange it looked like an ip address hope that helps and I logged in on safe mode it did the same thing just more colorful
2007-03-04 05:22:03 · update #1
I forgot to add is that of corse usually when you are starting up on a windows 98 you go though those screens that have info on it like serching of boot record from floppy and stuff like that and then the desktop picture of the oringal profile pops up along with a login to get to your profile well when the picture pops up it is grossly enlarged to the center somewhat I truly hope that helps
2007-03-04 05:35:52 · update #2
OK SOUNDS LIKE TO ME THAT YOU OPENED A FILE THAT HAD A VIRUS ATTACHED TO IT AND WHEN YOU OPENED IT IT WENT BOOOOM AND SHUT YOUR COMPUTER DOWN SO WHAT YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE TO DO IS THIS OK ..ASK SOMEONE FOR THE DISK CALLED F DISK IT CAN BE ON A FLOPPY DRIVE OR A DISK AND THEN F DISK THE HARD DRIVE AND REINSTALL WINDOWS XP IT IS THE BEST RUNNING PROGRAM ONTHE NET AND WILL WORK WITH ALMOST ANY SYSTEM UNLESS YOU HAVE A SLOW SYSTEM LIKE A 500MHZ THEN YOU CAN INSTALL WINDOWS 98 CAUSE WINDOWS XP AND WINDOWS 98 ARE BASICLY THE SAME ASEPT THAT XP HAS MORE BETTER GRAFICS AND MORE OPTIONS AND CAN FIND DRIVERS THAT 98 CANT OK SO F DISK AND REINSTALL XP OR 98 AND YOU WILL BE FINE THEN OK HOPE THIS HELPS ..........
2007-03-04 05:22:53 · answer #1 · answered by Popeye 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like you were trying to make some space on the hard drive and possibly nailed an important file. It might be booting into safe mode with the large icons? Since this data is pretty important, is there a way you could place it into a friend's PC as a slave drive and copy over the data, and burn it to CD/DVD? It is possible during boot up in a friend's PC that the damaged or missing files might be fixed by the friend's PC. I've done similar things before with hard drives that had corrupted data. Floppy disks for 98? I thought that came on CD? I don't think you have an operating system on those floppies. This could be bad if you have no OS on CD,...no way to reinstall the OS.
2007-03-04 05:17:42 · answer #2 · answered by robert257a 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You'll need to be a little bit more descriptive, what was the name of the file or folder you deleted? And all you were doing was installing an MP3 driver? Are there any errors that appear on screen when booting up?
2007-03-04 05:11:44 · answer #3 · answered by Nick PC 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
restart and hold the f8 key down while it is booting. in the options pick start in safe mode. Then fix what you did by going to your recycle bin and click on undelete. good luck
2007-03-04 05:13:17 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hi,simply the best way is to re-install the win98.because you have deleted the system files that were use to run win98
2007-03-04 05:23:54 · answer #5 · answered by computer bug!!! 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
just do a system restore.........
startup menu ----- accessories ------ system tools --- system restore.... jus make sure u pick one of the bold dates and make sure ur pc worked fine on those dates. simple as that... youll have ur pc back n runnin in notime !
2007-03-11 21:29:07 · answer #6 · answered by I V X 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
install XP
2007-03-04 05:19:08 · answer #7 · answered by just_curious 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋