Please help me with my massive computer problems!!

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insert your win98 disk and reinstall

yea i know reformating would fix it...but i dont have the cd handy(i am on my parents friends comp and he owns the comp and the win98se...i could bring a win98se over from my other house)and it is way to much of a hassle...all of the computers that i have ever touched have crashed (they hate me) i wish i wasnt cursed when it comes to computers...my parents friend who always fixes my comp told me last time was the last time he would do it so i went out and bought a version of win98se for myself $50 on ebay...My dads comp crashed...so i needed it anyway...and his computer partly reformated itself so we couldnt go into my computer or download anything or make a boot disk so we could reinstall windows 98....so i had to go to my friends to get a boot disk and then reinstall it.....

highjackers can destroy your system and reinstalling will overwrite and fix windows.

if i just put in the disk and do "repair" will it delete any of my stuff or will it just all stay???

??????

you should lose nothing, i never did and have done it a few times.

will i need a boot disk???or just click on setup in the cd???

A windows 98 cd is a boot disk. You may have to go into bios and reset the boot sequence though. Depending on the type of system (dell, compaq, ibm, etc) you have to hit a key while it's booting up (f2, f8, f10, f12, delete).
Maybe you could take a class. It will come in handy.
This is what I would do....
Boot off of your windows 98se cd. select install a fresh copy. delete all partitions. create on new(raw) partition. pick this new partition to load windows on. pick the NTFS file format.

just don't uninstall windows LOL, windows will simply overwrite any damaged files and keep current ones on.

what i am trying to say is do you have to be in ms-dos???

so just run setup while i am logged into windows on my computer run setup off the cd???

A "repair" will replace existing SYSTEM files and add any missing SYSTEM files. Things like music, word documents, things like that aren't SYSTEM files.

No No Doss, just insert cd and reinstall, you do not need to reformat anything.

ok...i think i will do that...i will have to wait until next week to do this though...my win98se is at my other house...and i have surgery next wednesday...=(

i'd just throw the thing out the window

but if i threw it out the window...i wouldnt even be able to talk to you guys and get help...then i would have to get help on how to put my computer back together...

I usually do a system repair by turning off the computer and booting off of the CD. It will bring you to a blue screen that does... kinda... resemble dos.

can you boot off the CD with win98se???i wasnt able to last time i tried...maybe thats because i went from windows me to windows 98 se...

hey does anyone know what a good system setup would be to have a non-laggy game of rome total war???mine is really laggy...

yes, you can boot off of any OS cd such as win98se. You may have to adjust the boot sequence though. In reply to: A windows 98 cd is a boot disk. You may have to go into bios and reset the boot sequence though. Depending on the type of system (dell, compaq, ibm, etc) you have to hit a key while it's booting up (f2, f8, f10, f12, delete).