I could be scr*wed

[foghat46]

I may have really stepped in it this time. I decided to do the "Shop Vac for Registry" procedure, which I have used in the past with great success, on my Toshiba Satellite 2540CDS laptop. I followed the instructions exactly, walked away, and sometime later heard a noise, which was the laptop shutting down. The last time I looked at the screen it was somewhere around 31%. It would not boot up. I waited awhile and tried again, it booted, but went into the hardware wizard and detected every bit of hardware on the system, just as if I had deleted the enum key. After much installing and rebooting, I found out that I can't get into control panel or boot to DOS. My display ain't right, either, and I get a message about changing settings on boot. I have downloaded Toshiba Controls and the right video driver from Toshiba's website, but can't get them loaded. I tried to run the command line for the registry cleaner again from a DOS prompt after booting from a boot disk, but I get a "bad command or file name" response. Windoze 98SE. Any suggestions? I need this laptop for an install in the morning at a customer's site about 150 miles from here. I don't care what I have to do to fix it.

Save my butt, please
Fog

[HAL9000]

Boot to DOS, run SCANREG/RESTORE and restore an old registry.

[foghat46]

DUH!!! Thanks Hal, for shaking me awake. Sometimes I think that if brains were dynamite, I couldn't blow my nose. I've got too many things to do on my one occasional day off, I must have panicked. I know how it is to be sick of your job-I'm there right now, but I know I'll get over it. Thanks a lot, I'm back in action.