I Get DOS prompt: WinME won't start

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Name: d1776ante
Date: July 15, 2005 at 17:47:46 Pacific
Subject: I Get DOS prompt: WinME won't start
OS: Windows ME
CPU/Ram: Pentium 3- 256MB

Comment:

I get the C:\ prompt when starting up the machine.
Tried system restore, didn't work.
Tried c:\windows\win it says "only runs on MS-DOS 8.00 and higher".
autoexec.bat and config.sys are there and haven't been renamed. System.ini hasn't been changed, still has "Shell=explorer.exe" line in it.
any suggestions, please? Trying to avoid $150 for tech support or $75 for local PC repair or re-install.
I just know it's gotta be some tiny line mis-allocating some critical piece of data.
Thank YOu

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Response Number 1

Name: d1776ante
Date: July 15, 2005 at 18:13:05 Pacific
Subject: I Get DOS prompt: WinME won't start

Reply: (edit)

THis is the screen I get
Microsoft (R) Windows 98
(c) Copywright Microsoft Corporation 1981-1998
c:>

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Response Number 2

Name: Mechanix2Go
Date: July 15, 2005 at 19:23:09 Pacific
Subject: I Get DOS prompt: WinME won't start

Reply: (edit)

Boot with an ME boot disk and:
sys c:
M2

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Response Number 3

Name: d1776ante
Date: July 16, 2005 at 07:19:49 Pacific
Subject: I Get DOS prompt: WinME won't start

Reply: (edit)

Did that already.
That changed it from "invalid system disk" at start up to the C:\> at start up.
Windows appears to be loading, but no GUI.

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Response Number 4

Name: jboy
Date: July 16, 2005 at 09:45:05 Pacific
Subject: I Get DOS prompt: WinME won't start

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"Windows appears to be loading, but no GUI."
What a curious statement
Are you quite certain you used a WinME bootdisk, and not one for Win98?
Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid. -John Wayne

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Response Number 5

Name: d1776ante
Date: July 16, 2005 at 10:32:25 Pacific
Subject: I Get DOS prompt: WinME won't start

Reply: (edit)

Finally just put in the same bootdisk again and did sys C: again and it got WinME to boot. Just Had to reinstall printer driver.
Has anyone ever had to do the sys c: thing twice to get a system back?

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Application won't start from desktop sh Comp won't start up Computer won't start ! Helppp cmdninst won't start up Programs Won't Start	Iphlpapi.dll can't start?? PC won't start at all How to get to DOS prompt in ME WinME wouldn't start. Close call. Norton won't start up anymore!

Response Number 6

Name: jboy
Date: July 16, 2005 at 14:44:00 Pacific
Subject: I Get DOS prompt: WinME won't start

Reply: (edit)

Nope
Should've seen 'system transferred' if successful - I suppose how the Win98 system files got on there will remain a mystery?
Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid. -John Wayne

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Response Number 7

Name: Mechanix2Go
Date: July 17, 2005 at 01:24:25 Pacific
Subject: I Get DOS prompt: WinME won't start

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"Nope"
jboy, you have a way with words.
I think the secret of the w98 is safe.
M2

If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.

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