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  1. October 28th, 2003, 09:16 AM #1
    Trish Conjure
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    Question Newbie Woes

    I am trying to get a HP Pavilion with WIN95 running again. It was running well until a newbie tried to remove several programs by right clicking properties and going into programs and deleting them. After making several other feeble attempts to get it to work, he decided to reformat the hard drive and run recovery. It came up for a little while, but after he started scan, in tools and canceled it, the system reverted to safe mode, and doesn't seem to be able to leave it.
    While in safe mode, I ran step by step (4) and it loaded everything up to the windows95 screen, then it reverted back to safe and this error message . "Warning" Windows did not finish loading on previous attempt, choose safe mode to start windows with minimum amount of drivers. Then this message flashed quickly across the top of the screen "error loading user.exe, then it says it’s safe to sign off. It seems to keep going in a loop.
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  2. October 28th, 2003, 09:42 AM #2
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    Unfortunatly it sounds the quickest and easiest solution would be to format the drive and start from afresh.
    Do you have the manufacturers reinstall CD or are you using Win95CD/floppies [which version] and drivers?
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  3. October 28th, 2003, 10:02 AM #3
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    tools used

    The restoral was done using the CD that came with the PC, called recovery. It is running Win95 4.00.950, a real oldy. When loading step by step, it seemed to be able to load the drivers for crystal audio but I am not too sure about the video card, I don't recall seeing TRIO32, unless it loads under a different name. tc
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  4. October 28th, 2003, 10:08 AM #4
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    Did you do the resore again or the owner?
    It could be the graphics card is not that supplied with the system so you may have to source a new[old] driver for it.
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  6. October 30th, 2003, 08:40 AM #5
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    Smile It's up and running again ....

    I was finally able to recover, but device manager still shows the original modem and it wouldn't allow me to install the drivers for the current one from the CD. I am not too concerned about that though as this PC is used primarily for games and isn't connected to the net. I guess all it needed was a woman's touch. Thanks tc
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  7. October 30th, 2003, 08:46 AM #6
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    Unknown Device Identifier v3.01

    Never say die
    Try the above tool it may point out if you have the wrong driver.
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