Tormenting problem

[Hideki-Motosuwa]

For the last 2 years I've been having the same problem that happends about every week.After my computers HD gets to about 8gb or a certain time limit, I dont really know but it happends ever week, After restarting my computer gets stuck on the Windows Me Editon screen.To solve this I have to reinstall my operating system and everything on my hard drive is completely wiped out.This has been happenning for 2 years now and everytime I have to restart my computer and the windows screen shows up I get extremly paranoid.Now, It just happend and I was just sick of reinstalling my operating system so I was messing around in the safe mode options I chose the option Step-by-step Confirmation.After it said Windows will prompt you to confirm each startup command It told me to process system registry I said no to all of the options and then It worked!It actually worked! Well the internet wasnt working so I thought it could of been one of those files I didn't load.So I was thinking and I said It must be one of those files that I didn't load that is making my computer get stuck on that Windows Me Screen.After I restarted my computer I was experimenting I finally found out the cause of the problem.It was this thing in the Step-by-Step confirmation It was Enable SMARTDRV Disk Cache this was the problem.Now I want to know if I could run my computer with the SMARTDRV Disk Cache off or... I don't really know what this thing dose so im wondering if I dont really need this thing and if I could do on this computer with that thing off what I can do on normal computers like play video games and stuff.

[Canis Lupus]

SMARTDRV is used to speed up disk access in the drives where it is specified to run - but as far as I know this is only used in DOS, not Windows... thereotically, your system can run fine without it...

You can disable it in both the autoexec.bat and config.sys by typing REM in front of the line where smartdrv is specified (OR just delete the whole line altogether), or we could help tweak it and see where the problem lies ... if you could post the contents of both your autoexec.bat and config.sys files, we can find out what may be causing the problem...

But right now, I'll just recommend that you remove the smartdrv lines in your autoexec.bat and config.sys...

[Hideki-Motosuwa]

Hmm... Ok cuz I dont want to go to the safe mode options just to start my computer.Uh when I open the autoexec.bat it opens Ms-Dos and says preparing to start your computer.This may take a few minutes. please wait... Not ready reading drive A abort, Retry, Fail? and when I open config.sys with notepad I cant find SMARTDRV.

[Canis Lupus]

Uhm, use notepad to edit autoexec.bat ... why did you open config.sys in notepad but proceeded on double clicking on autoexec.bat?

[Hideki-Motosuwa]

little late posting a reply and lol ok i'll try that

[Hideki-Motosuwa]

Argh! Nvm After I restarted my computer I got a message: Registry file was not found.Registry services may be inoperative for this session.A problem that I used to get a long time ago and I had to reinstall my operating system.Chance that anyone would know how to fix this if i get the msg again?

[Hideki-Motosuwa]

HELP!!! It happend again now how do I disable SMARTDRV.PLZ REPLY!

[Hideki-Motosuwa]

I found out how to open autoexec.bat correctly It just says
SET windir=C:\WINDOWS
SET winbootdir=C:\WINDOWS
SET COMSPEC=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM
SET PATH=C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND
SET PROMPT=$p$g
SET TEMP=C:\WINDOWS\TEMP
SET TMP=C:\WINDOWS\TEMP
and config.sys is empty.This is Windows M.E maybe its different with other operating systems.

[Hideki-Motosuwa]

Can some one Please help me?