Well, I can't use the recovery CD, since my internal cd-rom does not work, and the external cd-rom won't work without Windows running. My Comp. is an HP Pavilion 6535. Will enable the boot time...

Okay, figured out how to get into bios (was f1 key, was just pushing it at wrong time ). Anyhow, set the default, saved and exited. Still didn't work.

Looked around a little and jotted down some...

Well, I got my hands on a start-up disk and have run the scan disk. Had no errors, ran a full scan. Weird thing is, it then asked next driver? So, I said yes, and it then scanned drive D (which is...

Here is another thing (don’t know if it will make a difference or not) but I do have the screwed up comp. networked to the computer I am currently using. I didn’t think it would work, but I am able...

"What was your son's CD? A CD drive, a program?"
-It was just a kids CD (Bob the builder).

Nope, does the same thing in safe mode. Also does the same thing when I go back to a restore point 'before' this happened as well (by using scanreg). :(

Have a HP pavilion comp., Windows 98, 466 mhz processor, 319 Ram, and the CD-rom stopped working. Got an external CD-rewritter backpack. Downloaded the driver from their site. Hooked up the...