Annette,

I was recently made aware of the fact that if you delete your
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\enum" key in the registry your machine will redetect all
harware.  I suspect that your problem has to do with virtual device drivers.
This would prove true if you can get into safe mode without trouble.

I also suggest you wait on taking this drastic measure until a couple of the
experts on the list confirm that it will work.  I have never tried it
myself, yet.

Kyle Elmblade
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From: "Annette Robart" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, August 18, 2000 7:56 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Built new computer -System will not start-HELP


I built a computer, not my first, but the first time I attempted to actually
copy my existing hard drive to a new computer.  I may have done this
backwards. I took the new hard drive and attached it to my existing computer
and partitioned it and did the format, then copied my existing hard drive to
the new one.  I then attached the new drive to the new computer. Did not
plug in anything non essential (sound cards, modems, etc) I wanted to make
sure everything else was running first. The initial boot up seemed to go
fine, the hard drive and cd-rom were recognized in the BIOS, and Windows
detected the new devices. BUT, I could never get it to start again. It gets
to the point where it says starting Windows 98 and just hangs there.  It
will go into safe mode, and when I go to the performance tab in the
properties of My Computer, I get:
File System:  Some drivers are using MS-DOS compatibility
Virtual Memory: MS-DOS Compatibility mode
Select an item and click for details for more info:
There are 3 items listed:
Compatibility-mode paging reduces overall system performance
Drive A is using MS-DOS compatibility mode file system
Drive C is using MS-DOS compatibility mode file system
When I click for more details it says something about Dos drivers in the
config.sys or autoexec.bat files. I checked those and the only thing in them
were statements about the cd-rom. I put REM in front of those, just on the
off chance it was that, but it made no difference.
At this point I am just lost!!  Does anyone have any ideas????

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