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Subject: Goback error!

Original Message

Name: LittleD653
Date: February 3, 2007 at 15:05:09 Pacific
Subject: Goback error!
OS: Windows ME
CPU/Ram: Pentium III, 512MB
Model/Manufacturer: Gateway

Comment:

I have recently encountered a HUGE problem. Everytime I turn my computer on, Goback starts to load and then says "Please wait", only to give me an error message 5 minutes later (error 0x1) saying that my system has become unstable and I need to restart, and the cycle repeats. I found a patched Goback that does not exhibit this problem but I need some way of bypassing Goback to get into Windows ME to disable or uninstall Goback.
PLEASE HELP!
P.S. - Reinstalling Windows is NOT an option, I need everything on my hard drive!

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Response Number 1

Name: jam
Date: February 3, 2007 at 15:14:10 Pacific
Subject: Goback error!

Reply: (edit)

Did you try safe mode?

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Response Number 2

Name: LittleD653
Date: February 3, 2007 at 16:02:06 Pacific
Subject: Goback error!

Reply: (edit)

I can't use safe mode because you can only get into safe mode after goback loads...see the problem?
I have also tried boot disks but I can't get into the Windows ME system (or at least not yet)

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Response Number 3

Name: jboy
Date: February 3, 2007 at 17:46:41 Pacific
Subject: Goback error!

Reply: (edit)

A boot diskette will only boot to a DOS prompt
GoBack is a well known source of grief - you haven't mentioned which version you have, but there are some instructions for removing v2.2 using DOS
I'm not one of those who think Bill Gates is the devil. I simply suspect that if Microsoft ever met up with the devil, it wouldn't need an interpreter.

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Response Number 4

Name: LittleD653
Date: February 3, 2007 at 20:23:09 Pacific
Subject: Goback error!

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Okay I did that (which is also what symantec's website says to do) but when it brought me to the Goback utility screen no window came up asking me to disable or uninstall Goback, and after I waited for 10 minutes a message came up with the error "gb_genlog(181)"
PLEASE HELP! I REALLY NEED THOSE FILES!

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Response Number 5

Name: jboy
Date: February 3, 2007 at 21:45:57 Pacific
Subject: Goback error!

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Well, 'Please Help' (no matter how many times) isn't going to change anything
Don't know really - it's atrocious software, and can be very difficult to uninstall when it goes South - - you may end up slaving the drive to a working system in order to recover files
'Maybe' (and I'm not positive on this) you can rewrite the boot record of the hard drive by booting with a floppy diskette and entering:
fdisk /mbr
.. but I can't guarantee - it could conceivably make matters worse
I'm not one of those who think Bill Gates is the devil. I simply suspect that if Microsoft ever met up with the devil, it wouldn't need an interpreter.

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Response Number 6

Name: jboy
Date: February 3, 2007 at 21:53:34 Pacific
Subject: Goback error!

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Maybe this set of instructions from Gateway will be helpful - particularly the 'unhook GoBack from the master boot record (MBR)' section
I'm not one of those who think Bill Gates is the devil. I simply suspect that if Microsoft ever met up with the devil, it wouldn't need an interpreter.

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