Oh man! where to start, at the begining...Of course its ME
system..my rugrat was playing a harry potter game, [no
probs for a long time with it (HP game)] went to close the
game and the computer froze. ? then later that day (back
in Nov) the only thing that shows [still] is the gateway
logo thing then apparently goes thru some sort of startup
stuff but doesnt complete (i guess) because the next thing
that pops in is black screen with this message :Invalid
boot diskette please incert boot diskette in A: ....i've
trys this to no avail,i then tried the win ME startup
disk, ugg same deal, got it to go thru some diagnose
thing, scandisk thru the prompt thing, says " no probs
found" tried the system restoration disks, no help, tried
to reistall windows thought it was going to go but it
said "remove disk to finish installing windows" but it
wouldnt do that either? ...i finally got one of the things
in there said that i dont have a fat or fat 32 partition?
now i do understand some of this stuff"learn as i go"
kinda guy, BUT i'm whatever would be before a novice
lol oh i also tried holding the ctrl button down when the
computer restarts, mine beeps n says keyboard error then
goes to above message about boot disk...have read thru 40
pages in here but nothing too close to my dilema? i have
been to diferent links about fdisk and 1 i just finished
reading that about scared the pants offa me lolbout
repartitioning etc etc, i dont suppose theres a
reasonably easy way to fix this thing,dang gateway closed
down the only 2 stores close to me !! $#$^%$^%#% "know
what i mean? thnaks in advance!! hope i didnt type too
much Uncle Sam=dissapointed with modern technology

ammended thing i have also diabled go back and system
restore as i have norton utilities installed and it been
great till now.. and i'm sending these messages off my XP
system as i cant do anything from the ME computer
Thanks ! Uncle Sam=dissapointed with modern technology

sorry for incomplete info, i think i did the scandisk
thing thru the step by step thing which i answered yes to
all [thats where it said "no fat32 partition] and yes i
have norton internet security,02' with the new norton anti
virus professional thing 03'so i could install on both pcs
as not to get ripped off buying 1 for each lol, altho my
rescue disks were not updated since august 03, also a
year or so ago i actually reinstalled windows "over
itself" (i guess thats how it did it) and its also been
working fine until this incident?? sorry for miss
spells, shoulda proof read before i sent it is my
hard drive dead? oh and i have 512 ram and 80 gigs on
the ME system, and the sys restore and go back have been
shut down for more than a year.. i hope i remembered
everything...
Uncle Sam=dissapointed with modern
technology