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OS not found
Name: Jemuzu Date: March 7, 2004 at 19:22:36 Pacific OS: windows ME CPU/Ram: i don't know, my brother
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god. my brother is a freaking ignoramus. he had deleted what he thought was spyware from /windows, nice cover up for being stupid, and our power blinked off. when he turned the computer back on, 'Operating system not found.' he doesn't remember what files he deleted, and he insists on searching google. i figured it could mean a thousand things, so i'm asking here. we've booted with a startup disk, and tried to open windows. says something's wrong with ifshlp.sys. my brother first asked me to redirect msdos.sys to the right folder. it is. then _I_ found out the problem isn't with ifshlp but with ifshmgr. any thoughts? i have no other info until he tells it to me.
Name: Jemuzu Date: March 7, 2004 at 19:24:30 Pacific
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P.S. i'm charging my brother $20 if i can fix his computer before he can. ;)
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Response Number 2
Name: CrazyOne Date: March 7, 2004 at 22:54:55 Pacific
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Jemuzu,
"we've booted with a startup disk, and tried to open windows. says something's wrong with ifshlp.sys. my brother first asked me to redirect msdos.sys to the right folder. it is. then _I_ found out the problem isn't with ifshlp but with ifshmgr."
Could you explain that, a little better. Have to admit, don't quite follow, thanks.
Was that 'ifsmgr.vxd', and not "ifshmgr" Just curious. :-) Some Info
CrazyOne
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Response Number 3
Name: Jemuzu Date: March 8, 2004 at 01:11:35 Pacific
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most likely it is, my brother doesn't want me to try to open windows again because he'll have to reboot it. that MS help page, my brother found it. asked me how to do everything, i told him/did it, nothing worked
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Response Number 4
Name: iminuse Date: March 8, 2004 at 08:05:52 Pacific
Name: Jemuzu Date: March 8, 2004 at 15:21:13 Pacific
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yeah, i did everything on there. last thing, reinstall windows using the setup.exe in the cabs folder, windows installed & booted but said problem with system32.dll. really hope i can save my brother $40 bucks by not going to a specialist.
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