Can anyone help me here?
Tried everything I know, but still cannot get the damn PC to work properly.
Here's what is happening:

The PC just suddenly stopped functioning whilst installing MS Works this afternoon, and I have spent the past 16 hours trying to correct it.

1. No mouse detection, despite re-installing the appropriate drivers.
Having to TAB through everything, which is pretty annoying.

2. Display will go no higher than 16 colours, despite numerous attempts to re-install motherboard drivers.

3. Cannot even re-format the drive. When I go to MS-DOS and type "Format C: " it gives you the WARNING, so when saying 'YES' to it, it comes up with the following message "Drive C: is currently in use by another process. Aborting format"

I have scanned for viruses with PC-Cillin 2000, Norton Antivirus 2002, Mcafee 2002. And they detect NOTHING.

I am still in the same position I was in at 1.00pm this afternoon. Getting nowhere fast!!!!!

Any suggestions?
I would really appreciate your help.
Is there another way of formatting your hard drive without using DOS?

Cheers,
miklosnillos

You have to boot to a dos diskette to format the drive.

Have you tried with Start -> Programs -> Accessories -> System Tools -> System Restore? Or is that thing disabled?

Also download and install RegCleaner from www.jv16.org

Run the application and from under tools menu you will find an option to Reset your Hardware Configuration. Do it and restart Windows. It will pick up everything once again. :tup:

Cheers guys
I will try BOTH and let you know.
:-)

miklosnillos

Partition Magic will do this.