RE: problem installing jfw5.0
- From: "Grant Hardy" <hardy_grant@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 08:37:46 -0800
David:
It is IMPOSSIBLE that the installation program would have done this.
Placing it on the desktop would have had nothing to do with it.
Grant
-----Original Message-----
From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of
David Poehlman
Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2003 7:02 AM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: problem installing jfw5.0
one thing I know may have happened is that for some reason, putting the
installer on the desktop may have fouled things. I know this was the case
in some earlier versions so it may well have been what caused the problem.
The cure is not so simple. Windows me needs to be repaired and for this
sight is required as far as I know or at least for the method of putting the
windows me cd in, starting the pc and if it is a bootable cd and the cd is
searched for in the boot path, run repair when the menu comes up. Other
than that, there are several other things to try. One would be if she has
an emergency disk which every one who uses windows me should have, she could
put that in the a drive and run setup from the windows me cd to fix the
problem. Trying another method that of pressing f8 during boot to see if a
menu will come up from which she could get into safe mode from which she
might be able to do a repair is another option.
This may also be coincidental. I have seen viri kill computers in this way
so the best solution may just be o wipe the pc and start over. For this,
you need a system floppy that allows you to run cds like the emergency disk
in the earlier option and just tell windows to reinstall but first, change
the name of the windows folder to something like windows-old so that windows
will be completely freshly installed.
----- Original Message -----
From: "tony" <tsantiag@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2003 8:48 AM
Subject: problem installing jfw5.0
Hi guys, I have a friend who has a computer running Windows ME. She
downloaded jfw 5.0 from the Freedom scientific website and tried to install
it. Well, she double-clicked the icon on the desktop, saw an hour glass and
heard the computer rumbling. Here comes the good part. She then saw all of
her desktop icons disappear, all except the system files. The computer
stopped rumbling, the icons were gone so she rebooted. She the got a message
saying, invalid system disk, try another and hit any key to continue. Well,
there was no disk in the floppy drive or in the cdrom drive, so she tried to
reboot again and got the same thing. Windows will not start. Has anyone ever
had this problem with a downloaded version of jfw? If anyone can help with
this, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
Tony
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