Whether Win  95, Win98, Win 2K, Win NT, Win Me (a real POS) you should be
able to build a bootable diskette that will give you a CD driver and the
ability to reinstall Win 98 or your OS of choice.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lee Bell" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2001 8:48 AM
Subject: Re: [SCUBA-SE] Maybe you have an idea


> Thanks Chuck.  I don't have to go elsewhere to do this, I have another
> computer right here.  It's just not a Windows 98 computer.  I'll take a
look
> to see what I can do.
>
> To those who are bored by these messages, I'm sorry.  I did not intend to
> send them to the list.  The computer I am using is not the one I normally
> use  for personal ISP messages and is not set up to separate messages by
> source.
>
> Lee
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chuck" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2001 6:49 PM
> Subject: Re: [SCUBA-SE] Maybe you have an idea
>
>
> > Go to your friendly neighbor who has a computer and take your Win 98 CD
> and
> > a floppy.  Go to My Computer/Add remove Programs/windows and use the
> option
> > to build a bootable diskette.  Take that home and reboot your PC from
the
> > floppy then do a reinstall of Win98.
> >
> > CH
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Lee Bell" <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2001 3:57 PM
> > Subject: [SCUBA-SE] Maybe you have an idea
> >
> >
> > > I'll get help from my office IT staff first chance I get, but it
occurs
> to
> > > me that you might have a suggestion that I can employ sooner.
> > >
> > > My office provided me a copy of Norton AntiVirus 2001 for my home
> computer
> > > (Windows 98).  As the program loaded, before it created any emergency
> boot
> > > disks, etc., it found a virus (didn't expect to have a problem, so I
> > didn't
> > > catch the name of the virus).  The infected file could not be cleaned,
> so
> > I
> > > told Norton to delete it.  That appears to have been a big mistake.
My
> > > computer is now reporting tha tit can not find hcsmtevbusnjd.exe.
> Worse,
> > it
> > > seems that this file is what the system uses to open all applications.
> In
> > > short, I can't open anything, including my Windows 98 CD.  I tried to
> > direct
> > > the program to CABS, but had no luck there either.  There is no file
by
> > that
> > > name in the Windows ME or Windows 2000 drives I have for this
computer.
> > >
> > > Any ideas?
> > >
> > > Lee
> > >
>