Joel Hammer wrote:
> I was trying to load printer drivers from a linux server onto two windows9x
> clients, one 95, one 98, for a lexmark z53 printer, which works just swell
> with linux.
> The drivers downloaded, but rebooting windows in both machines just hangs
> up at the point when it asks for your windows password.
> So, it seems that a file downloaded from the server did something bad to my
> windows boxes. There were some error messages about a file called
> lexcbes.exe or something similar being in use when I tried to download the
> files from the server. On one machine I thoughtfully deleted that file in
> dosmode, but on the other I just rebooted and the download went to
> completion but windows won't restart properly.
> I can only assume that this file is important to running windows other
> than just printing to the z53.
> Maybe the case mangling did something bad. Who knows?
> ANYWAY,
> I need to start windows in dosmode so I can try to reinstall the file I
> think is the culprit. I don't use windows so I don't know how.
> Any insight appreciated.
> Joel
The traditional answer is use a windows boot disk, but that only takes you into c
prompt. Try
lighting off the box. Right after the the bios display data such as type of drive and
size, but
before you get a going into win message hit F8. That will give you a menu that has a
dos option
and the safe option which brings up Windows without the drivers. If you use the safe
option
you can delete the print drivers and reboot. Or, if you miss the timing on hitting F8
let
windows boot into the win screen with the logo on it. Then shut the box down. This
generates a
fault that automatically boots into dos safe option the next time you bring the win
box up.
Lee
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