Hello people, I told my friend that my aol is acting wierd, it won't seem to connect. He worked on it and said he erased alot of spyware/adware. (unfortunely aol is still not fixed) Anyways the next day when I turned on my computer Windows ME won't load up the start up (desktop)screen it just stays in the Windows ME screen... I am a intermediate PC user and from what I know I still can't get into windows. What I did was when it's in the Windows ME screen I pressed esc and it displayed setup is updating your configuration files and it stays there forever... it will not load into windows even after 30 minutes. So I tried a ME bootdisk but it reads: non system disk I don't understand why, because I made that disk from my computer. Then I tried my recovery CD, and I went into restoring previous setting and the computer ran for awhile and when it reached 34% it displayed no image file found and I was forced to exit. I didn't want to select restore to factory settings because it will erase all my files. So with these 2 options there was nothing else I can do. Then I tried going into safe mode (F8), but it still wont go in. I pressed esc and it still displays setup is updating your configuration files. I kept letting it run, but it still won't load into windows. If anyone can offer some suggestions it would be greatly appreciated!! Thank you everyone so much!

Did you try running "scandisk" in SAFE MODE?

When you were able to get into windows did windows make you install all the drivers for the hardware?

Selecting safemode I still wasn't able to get into windows. It still displays setup is updating your configuration files. ============================================ I don't know that answer because I allowed my friend to work on it and I don't know what he did. Thanks again ...Please help...

Well my friend got a widley spread aol virus and had some of the same problems....if u cant get back into windows...all i can say is recover it to the factory defaults

Thanks everyone for the help!