Guess whose computer crashed?

[dropCGCF]

Yeah, mine. Windows told me that it couldn't load explorer.exe and that I needed to reinstall. My dad forced me to take it to some guy who told me he would have to wipe my hard drive. Bleh.

[Null]

didnt need to whip out the drive.

And which explorer was it trying to run? windows explorer or internet explorer? (both basically run of the same thing, but ones much more easy to fix then the other. lol)

[dropCGCF]

Windows. I think it had something to do with the badurl.grandstreetinteractive virus had a week ago. It kept putting stupid stuff on my computer. I just hope the guy doesn't wipe my drive like I know he will.

[KillerGremlin]

Make a backup, run start up, and see if you can load windows to an older state that isn't ****ed up.

I deleted my system.dat file or something......

[Happydude]

if you have the windows CD you can re-install windows without having to delete anything...just put in the CD, boot up your comp, go into BIOS Setup (press 'del' when comp is booting) set the first boot device to CD-Rom and restart...it should ask you to press the any key, when it asks if you want to repair wondows the first time, don't, just press enter to continue withthe installation, when it asks the second time, repair it and it will re-install windows without formatting.

[Null]

Originally Posted by happydude

if you have the windows CD you can re-install windows without having to delete anything...just put in the CD, boot up your comp, go into BIOS Setup (press 'del' when comp is booting) set the first boot device to CD-Rom and restart...it should ask you to press the any key, when it asks if you want to repair wondows the first time, don't, just press enter to continue withthe installation, when it asks the second time, repair it and it will re-install windows without formatting.

going into the bios is a different key for different computers. some you delete, some use one of the fkeys.

and you dont have to go into the bios at all if your computer is already set to the correct boot order, so just try without going into the bios first. some pc's say press any key to boot from CD.
if you do have to go into the bios, the correct order is
FLOPPY
CD ROM
HD

dont just change the first cuz sometimes that screws up things. make sure you have the HD in the list somewhere still.

And it should just be repair, i dont think it says reinstall with it. cuz repair and reinstall are different.