Hi,
A friend has a celeron 1.2 gig with 256 meg ram running win98se. Following a recent hdd failure they bought a 40 gig seagate drive.  Initially all worked ok.  But after installing the drivers for canon printer, a scanner and a a40 digital camera the machine will proceed to the "Windows is shutting down" screen and stays there. This happens during shutdown or restart (which is a pain when loading software). We have downloaded and installed a patch for windows shutdown problems from Microsoft but that has not changed anything.  Reloaded windows and still no fix. I have heard that reinstalling windows from a boot disk is better but am not sure what this would do to existing installations.
Can anyone provide any assistance.  We want to avoid a reformat and redo if at all possible.

Thanks
Rick Thornton

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