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Registry Problems installing win 95
Here is the scenario I am in.
Last week my computer warned me that I had a registry problem with a dialog box. I tried to restore the registry by clicking the botton, but it didn't work. So I tried to fix with either my Norton Rescue Disks and my first AId 95 back-ups. It didn't work.
So I decided to reinstall windows 95. I went through the installation process under the restore option. At the end, windows 95 requested the file-sample.sys. I was able to find this file and reinstalled windows 95.
As I waiting for the computer to boot with windows 95 "for the first time", once into windows it claimed that there was a registry problem.
So I installed windows 95 over the old version, and got the same problems.
What can I do to fix this problem?
Last week my computer warned me that I had a registry problem with a dialog box. I tried to restore the registry by clicking the botton, but it didn't work. So I tried to fix with either my Norton Rescue Disks and my first AId 95 back-ups. It didn't work.
So I decided to reinstall windows 95. I went through the installation process under the restore option. At the end, windows 95 requested the file-sample.sys. I was able to find this file and reinstalled windows 95.
As I waiting for the computer to boot with windows 95 "for the first time", once into windows it claimed that there was a registry problem.
So I installed windows 95 over the old version, and got the same problems.
What can I do to fix this problem?
Since the restore from backup did not work you will have to junk your registry files. Rename the user.dat, system.dat, system.da0 and system.1st files to *.old then reinstall windows.. this should straighten out any registry problems. Be aware that you will have to reload any software that made entries into the registry.
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Those files don't exist on the computer.
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my bad... forgot to say that they were hidden :)
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It was a great answer. I had to delete the files, and install again. Lucky I had First AID 97. It had a copy of the registry and my computer is back without a scratch. I highly recommend that program.