when i boot my machine it says something about an xms cache problem and then it goes to the windows me startup screen (where you choose what mode to start windows in) and at the bottom it says to run scanreg but i can't even get into windows. are there any programs that boot from a disk and scan your registry?What OS? More information needed.i have: windows me

original gateway motherboard (from around 2000 i asume)

amd athlon 1 ghz processor

192 MB RAM

ati radeon video card

20 gb hard drive

Also, I recently was messing around with a dos boot disk and formatted my whole hard drive. fortunantly a guy i know ran a unformat program on my hard drive on his COMPUTER and all my data was recovered. then i was being stupid again and my computer would not go to windows and told me to run scanreg and there was something wrong with xms. this could've happened for any of these suspected reasons:

1. I was DELETING files on my c: drive that i think i didn't need (how stupid). i should've just hid them.

2. i installed dos 6 on another hard drive, and i put the same plug that is in my windows drive in the other one to get to dos to try to run some dos games from there.

then when i unplugged the cable from the drive to plug it into the windows drive again (i must have yanked on the cord wrong) the cable was tore apart.

then when i used windows again (not seeing the cord was ruined) and i tried opening the c: drive and all the folders and files were named weird stuff with weird symbols and error messages popped up.

then when i restarted my computer it said there was an xms problem and the windows me startup screen  appeared and said to run scanreg to fix the problem but i can't even get to windows.

3. something to do with the unformatting.

so i'm wondering what is the best way to fix this?You could try a repair install of ME...boot with a ME bootdisk, rename win.com in the root directory to win.old and insert your ME CD and proceed with the install...my computer didn't come with the windows me install disks (or any disks).You will eventually need Windows installation disks....
i might be able to talk my dad into copying all of his data off his laptop onto my hard drive.

is there a bootable undelete or registry fixing program i could try though? Quote

...at the bottom it says to run scanreg but i can't even get into windows. ...

i might be able to talk my dad into copying all of his data off his laptop onto my hard drive.

[highlight]It would put everything on his hdd on mine (including windows xp)[/highlight]