Various errors - any help much appreciated

susieb · 30 January 2007 at 12:09PM

I have an old pc that the kids use to play games and I have just set them up for the internet as well via a 2nd usb lead.
Its an old mesh pc and I knew there was something wrong with it as I cant run a scan disk on it(get message about restarting more than 10 times), but while it was chugging along I left the kids to it.
Its running windows Me.
However it seems riddled with problems now, internet explorer wont open, get message Iexplore has caused error in unknown, outlook express wont open either and I get msimn has caused error in unknown. I aso get YUM errors?
Any ideas of what I can do? I thought I could wipe it all and reinstall windows, but I'm not sure how to do this.
Or does it seem like the hard disk is rubbish and I should bin it.
Thanks in advance for any help

GreenNotM · 30 January 2007 at 12:36PM

Try running scandisk the W ME version of chkdsk

Click Start
Click Run and type scandisk in the run box
Click ok
Within the scandisk window select the drive that you wish to be checked.
Choose the option between standard and through. It is recommended you run standard first, if you encounter issues with scandisk then run the through scan.
Finally click start to begin scandisk.

HTH

albertross_2 · 30 January 2007 at 12:49PM

Run scandisk/defrag in safe mode (F8 at bootup)

Is a virus scanner installed and upto date?

susieb · 30 January 2007 at 12:59PM

GreenNotM wrote:

Try running scandisk the W ME version of chkdsk
Click Start

Click Run and type scandisk in the run box

Click ok

Within the scandisk window select the drive that you wish to be checked.

Choose the option between standard and through. It is recommended you run standard first, if you encounter issues with scandisk then run the through scan.

Finally click start to begin scandisk.

HTH

Scan disk wont run, just keeps saying its restarted 10 times, but I hav enot got anythign else running I can see

espresso · 30 January 2007 at 1:01PM

Screensaver?

albertross_2 · 30 January 2007 at 1:01PM

run it in safemode.

susieb · 30 January 2007 at 1:05PM

albertross wrote:

Run scandisk/defrag in safe mode (F8 at bootup)

Is a virus scanner installed and upto date?

Hi thanks, f8 does seem to do anything it just boots up as normal.
I have avg virus scanner installed, its out of date now as cant get internet explorer to open or get avg to download update, but it was upto date before I got all the errors.

albertross_2 · 30 January 2007 at 1:10PM

Try holding down control instead, at the point after the bios screen, and just before windows starts.

Anything that touches the hard disk will cause the scandisk to restart, this can be virus scanners, swap file etc.., so that's why it needs to be done in safemode.

if your problem just started happening, you may be able to use system restore to undo recent changes.

susieb · 30 January 2007 at 1:13PM

excellent that worked, just about to try and run it now

albertross_2 · 30 January 2007 at 1:24PM

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsME/using/computerhealth/articles/systemrestore.asp

susieb · 30 January 2007 at 1:33PM

standard scan disk has finished, found errors and fixed them, so I am now running a thorough check which is going to take the rest of the day I think.
The I will restore to a month ago and see how it is. The main problems seem to have started after installing a netgear wireless adapter, I think the pc is too old to take it.

Various errors - any help much appreciated

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