I must apologise if I misquoted Rob or overstated his involvement in this project thus far, I will briefly enclose his words on the subject:

“May I also take this opportunity to point out that deltree’ing certainly isn’t my preferred method of reinstall and wasn’t my suggestion! I might also say that my first advice was not to do it… again, people can vouch that I’m not a well known advocate of reinstalling under any circumstances and would rather spend days fixing an obscure problem than going through the hassle of a clean install.

The best suggestion was to stick in another 128mb of ram and run 2K prof on it, since that would already support all the hardware and have all the drivers, and directly support multiple users, but in the absence of any more RAM, and the apparent urgency to have a working machine, 98se seemed the only option.

Also, at this time I was not informed at the existence of a recovery disk………..?

I think the diary entry has overstated my involvement in the aforementioned incident and I would like to take this opportunity to distance myself from the outcome lol ” - Rob

I will now reply to the questions that seem to have arrisen.

Q: Why did I not format c: and start again?
A: Me and my mum have files on the machine and it doesn’t have a CDRW. I am too lazy to backup the files across the network or by any other means and it seemed like the quickest option to deltree windows and then reinstall it.

Q: Why did I deltree windows in the first place?
A: Because I hate faffing about. I thought that if I trashed windows and started again it would remove all the dregs of previously installed programs on the PC. Also the WiFi card I installed caused a conflict with some driver that was already installed and I thought it might fix that too (which it did).

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