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| mpm32:
Hi, So my PC in my Mame machine is messed up. It's running win 98 believe it or not. I build the machine and set it up in 2003 and it's been played at least once a week since then. The kids turned it on today and got this error: Did a little research and tried to comment out line 4 using c:\edit config.sys. I used REM_prior to that line. I tried to save but it told me it couldn't save the config.sys file. I exited and rebooted. I now get - Type the name of the command interpreter and the C prompt. I can't get anywhere from here, tried a couple of command prompts hit enter and I get the message. With my limited knowledge, I'm stuck and very bummed at the thought of starting over. I haven't kept up with MAME developments and it would be daunting to set it up again. I'm hoping it will be an easy fix. I've read that you can reinstall 98 without losing files. Any thoughts? Thanks! |
| lilshawn:
abort, retry, fail... that's dos talk for "your hard drive is hooped". you could probably reformat and reinstall, but if it's as old as you say, it's probably time for a new one. get yourself a new hard drive and start over. believe it or not, it's likely all the solar activity in the last week has been playing havoc with EVERYTHING. so far in the last week had 5 computers crash hard unexpectedly... 2 hard drives die and a server needing to be restarted twice (that literally doesn't need to be touched for months at a time) http://spaceweather.com/ |
| mpm32:
Oh I hope not. I wouldn't even know where to start if I had to start over. |
| Wired203:
run a chkdsk and see if you can recover the bad clusters, your drive is failing. If you are able to recover with chkdsk you will need to clone it to a new hard drive before it fails completely. |
| spoot:
--- Quote from: Wired203 on October 27, 2014, 10:37:17 pm ---run a chkdsk and see if you can recover the bad clusters, your drive is failing. If you are able to recover with chkdsk you will need to clone it to a new hard drive before it fails completely. --- End quote --- this |
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