About 3 days before new computer was to arrive the old decided to go on strike.

I got back once but it gone again.

Windows boots normally until I get a white screen with cursor/Hour glass.

Do the 3 finger salute and I get

msgsvr not responding.

I have win98 cd = drive yet it wont boot off that either.

Went to device manger a redid the cdrom driver. (safe mode)

HELP ME PLEASE

all I want to do is get it going again , move my files to

the new comp. and the take old one out in the woods and shoot it.

Safe Mode is great it won't allow you to copy the files you own.

Can you hook it up as the slave of your new disk and copy the files over that way?

So it won't let you continue normally? That's wierd. Try this:

I assume you already know how to go to Safe Mode. Then go to

Start/Settings/Control Panel/Power Management. Set all times to never. Not sure if this is the problem, but it's worth a shot.

Have you installed any apps lately?

Ken

That's what I was thinking of, too. When the new PC arrives, put the old disk in and copy the files. They should still be intact. The problem seems to just be in the start up procedure.

Windows98 sucks. Have fun not dealing with that crap anymore!

Ken

Windows98SE is a good OS, compared to the option of XP, for sure.

What? Did I hear you say Win98SE is better than XP? Surely you jest?

Update on my problem.

Start up using F6 key puts you into Safe Mode with Network.

I turned of all network prefs so it won't try to go to a network.

Took cover off machine unplugged and re-plagged in all drive while on shut down while still disconnected. Reboot Still get the white screen.

All I need to do is to get to see my Cd drive at start up and I can re-Install windows. I am running out of ideas.

Have too much on drive just to walk away.

Any Ideas??? ;^(

I read something on the Windows help site about this error coming up when the Palm hotsync cradle is connected.

I also read it had something to do with the energy saver power settings.

Check out windows.com. If you want to save the files on that PC, whatever you do, DONT reinstall Windows. It will delete your files.

It's not that the Windows re-install would be a problem , That's How I got it back last time. No Loss of Files. It's The restore disk that would kill me.

Besides that. It is the CD Rom that I think is the problem. It can not been seen in start up and is not in the device manager. Yet F1 setup at start up shows the CD Rom there. This is driving me bonkers. I quit smoking almost year ago and there have been times the last couple of days were I thought.. Strike that I am not aloud to think.

I know the problem lies at the CD at startup but I can't figure it out.

Again when I do the 3 finger salute I still get

msqsvr not responding. Even after I turned off all network connections.

Anybody got any Ideas or am I I going to See Dr. HardDrive?

Still at it.

Going to try to add cdrom from dos. Anyone know the commands.

Also who knows how to disable the annoying messagenger service that comes with XP?

Remove the HD and plug it into another PC.

Windows without the NT kernel sucks.

on start enter your BIOS (F1 or F2 or F8 or Del -depends on motherboard)

in "Boot Options/Menu" set your 1 boot device to be either flopy or CD...save and reboot. Some win CDs were not bootable back in the day....

OR do the slave-master thing from the perspective of the new computer and then u can copy/paste files. (slave the old HD)

All the best!

Thanks You guys.

Back in business. Now to copy over the files.

Still need to know how to get rid of Messenger services.

XP won't allow for it to be deleted. Very annoying little program.

Here is a link to a MS Knowledge Base article for removing messenger

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