Also I had my old Win ME computer with a Floppy drive in it.įirst I removed all the external connections, power, internet etc to the Win XP computer.
Luckily I kept my start up disk from my Win ME days. This was done on a MSI G31M3V2 motherboard which had provision for a 1.44 MB FDD, but no floppy. Once you've gotten your CD-ROM drive working in DOS, you may find that the device driver plus MSCDEX Most CD-ROM drives from the DOS era can be made to work in DOS with one of these drivers. There are four (4) of them, and their file names are ASPICD.SYS, OAKCDROM.SYS, BTCDROM.SYS, and FLASHPT.SYS.
Link : Making your CD-ROM drive available from DOS I chose the Floppy route as the CD/DVD drive was disabled and would not accept any boot up disk or the windows set up disk that came with the computer. Most CD-ROM drives can be made to work in DOS. Try and do a retro fix using a 1.44 MB Floppy drive and a Windows ME start up disk. I don't know if they used any Live USB or LiveCD programs, but they said there was no other way of getting inside the Hard drive, other than reformatting and reinstalling Windows after recovering whatever data they could. Since I got no useful response from anyone in the Forum, I took the computer to a data recovery specialist company who charged me $55 to come to the conclusion that the only way was to wipe the Hard Drive and start everything afresh and reinstalling Windows and the saved data from the disk, at considerable cost. It looks like I will have to do a complete new windows install unless there is a way to enable the HDD and disable the Avast self protect feature from the program Or disable Avast completely. Selecting any of the options in BIOS, Boot Menu or in the Advanced Options Menu had no effect. I can only access the Boot menu, Bios Settings and the Wndows Advanced Options menu. But when I went into Safe Mode and rebooted, the Hard drive, the CD/DVD drive and 'any other' external drive were ALL disabled. On their Website the instructions said to go into safe mode and execute the Avast cleanup.exe file.
I waited until the trial period ended and expected Avast to provide instructions how to un-install Avast but nothing. I used Avast to scan the 'C' Drive and found nothing. Some days it would work perfectly although slower than normal. It would unexpectedly lock up while working on a task or suddenly turn off and reboot. As soon as Avast was installed, it took ages to load, it would freeze on boot up 3-4 times on the same day. I was offered the Avast Premier trial version for 60 days to try so I accepted and downloaded this as well. I am using Windows XP SP3 and downloaded the free version of Avast.
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