System Restore From Startup Disk?

[rodan]

I used to brag about the ability of the "System Restore" in System Tools of Windows ME, until a neigbhor of mine, ran into a problem when her fiance tried to load a Windows 95 game cd on her system, and totally crashed it. She called me up, I walked her through booting up the system with a Start Up diskette, but, it would not let her access the System Restore program. There any way to do that from the Start up diskette in Windows ME?

[rodan]

Oops! I've should have included in the message, that, she could not boot up into Safe Mode, only would let her boot to "a" prompt from the start up floppy diskette.

[jmatt]

You can try your boot disk , if it dos'nt work , here are some sites for boot disks .
http://www.startdisk.com/Web2/ubd/ubd.htm http://www.startdisk.com/Web2/ubd/Clean.htm http://www.bootdisk.com/
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q271/7/71.asp
Got problems and don't want to reinstall...
Don't want to lose any of your settings or software? There's a command line option that'll get you back on your feet in no time. Boot up your PC with a Windows 95 boot disk, pop in your Windows 95 CD, and once
you're at the command prompt, type your CD-ROM drive letter immediately followed by a colon. So, if your CD was set to "D" you'd enter D: and then hit ENTER. At this point, type the following command: SETUP /pf.
This switch will restore all of Windows critical files to their factory state, and in 99 % of situations doing this will fix whatever problems you were having in Windows 95.

[Dave_H]

This may help,
How to Start the System Restore Tool From a Command Prompt (http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q279/7/36.ASP)
Best of luck.
Dave

[rodan]

Thanks for the tips and links..... I wish I would have known about that switch for Windows 95 back in those days. Looks like it is possible to get to System Restore, with a few adjustments.......I can't wait to test.thanks again http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[Steve R Jones]

Well maybe back in the win98 days. Win95 doesn't create backups like 98 and above does http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[Ziz]

Hey guys,

Continuing on this subject - My HD crashed last night, sounds like the same problems listed here. I can't get into Windows, not even to Safe Mode, but I can get to a C: prompt and look around, so I know all my data is intact. Gonna try the restore routine suggested here, but one more question.

I've been anticipating getting a new HD anyway, and I'll probably format it with 2000. If I use it as my new boot drive, can I put the old drive in as a slave and access it just for the sake of copying/saving the old data? I'd take the old drive out once I got everything I need off of it.

[Paulbax]

yes you could even leave it in the machine.:D :p :cool: :D