I need help with my 486. And has windows 3.1. Whenever I turn it on, it boots up normaly but when it comes to the initializing sentry file on C. it just keeps on loading and wont stop. Please tell me if you know whats wrong. Thank you P.S. I did find this exact question after doing a search, but it had been posted in 1999 and there were no replies. Sooz

Seems like undelete protection is being run from DOS upon startup - although why it should hang, I'm not sure. Possibly the drive is full, or perhaps you should scan the hard drive with scandisk or similar Try a clean boot (assuming you have MS-DOS6xx) by hitting F5 as you see 'starting MS-DOS' and open autoexec.bat with DOS Edit - look for any lines with undelete and disable by putting REM (and a space) at the beginning of the line. Save and reboot. We have nothing against ideas. We're against people spreading them. - General Augusto Pinochet of Chile

Okay, jboy, You are the man! I had dos 5.? so F5 only got me to the command prompt, but I managed to get the autoexec.bat file edited and put REM and a space at the beginning of the undelete line. Fixed and up and running happily saving my store inventory of over 350 items and I don't know how many cash transactions. I love you, man! Thanks Sooz

Hey, that's great, glad you got it going. Never made use of the undelete protection myself, but 'sentry' rang a bell. Not sure just how effective its protection is - you may want to determine what was causing it to hang. Also good to keep a bootdisk or two for your DOS version, and backup important files frequently. Thanks for posting back We have nothing against ideas. We're against people spreading them. - General Augusto Pinochet of Chile