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Had a great fall ! -SE style
I would like to have some idea of what hit me.
A few mornings back, I find the computer with the vmm32.vxd missing message. Now that I think about it, something must have forced it to reboot as well. To complicate matters, this was an upgraded machine, and the upgrade disk going to SE is the one that only works on 98. That is the machine has to be up and running to install it. And the machine has no floppy and I never got around to making a bootable CD. I manage to get into DOS and get into the windows directory. There are only three folders and most of the files are missing. Are the other partitions of the 80 GB HDD accessible in DOS? Maybe it was me? And now the question of the updated files for the larger HDD come to mind as well. Because I decided to proceed with installing Gold and as soon as completed run the SE upgrade CD. But the scandisk reported numerous errors on C. Other partitions OK. It reported a folder named BAER which aroused my curiosity as I have never had any program, etc. associated with that name on my machine, to the best of my knowledge of course. Any help is greatly appreciated because I really want to avoid this mess again. Current result is that everything will have to be reinstalled. Machine is currently running and everything remains on the other partitions, so most of my data is obviously OK. But on the C drive I have a ton of DIR folders and almost 300 filexxxx.chk files. Registry was obviously lost, hence the total reinstall. And after much sifting, I will likely find most of the other data in those DIR's. After too many failed tape recovery systems, I had decided to dabble with external USB HDD. Thoughts on this are welcome as well and BTW this isn't going to well either. Can't break 15MB/s on USB2. And it came with GHOST, which I have yet installed. I had picked up a copy of Partition Magic 8 at the same time. At least one of these I tried to install and it failed, crashed. I thought I uninstalled, but later found folders/files, associated with some security company that Norton may use as part of antipiracy. I got rid of what I was aware in that area, but now wonder if there was some remnant left that timed out at the 30 day not registered and could have went haywire. What search I've done indicates dibeng.dll or was it dib32.dll need replacing, causation for the vmm32.vxd error, but the files exist in the created DIR's, possibly indicating as well that everything just got scrambled. Definitely need to Get Around to It, and make that bullet proof back up that will act as a recovery. Norman |
"E_Net_Rider" wrote in message
... At least to me, your post mind boggling. Answers inline on what I can make any sense of. I would like to have some idea of what hit me. A few mornings back, I find the computer with the vmm32.vxd missing message. Error Message: Cannot Find a Device File That May Be Needed to Run Windows http://support.microsoft.com/default...;en-us;Q132008 Err Msg: Cannot Find a Device File That May Be Needed to Run... http://support.microsoft.com/default...;en-us;Q166832 Now that I think about it, something must have forced it to reboot as well. To complicate matters, this was an upgraded machine, and the upgrade disk going to SE is the one that only works on 98. That is the machine has to be up and running to install it. And the machine has no floppy and I never got around to making a bootable CD. I manage to get into DOS and get into the windows directory. There are only three folders and most of the files are missing. You can create a 98 boot disk from any other 98 machine or get one at: http://www.bootdisk.com/ Please read Read1st in the right pane for instructions on how to create the boot disk from the downloaded file. Are the other partitions of the 80 GB HDD accessible in DOS? Maybe it was me? If they are there, yes. At the prompt type: d: and press Enter dir d:\ and press Enter If the drive has many folders/files and scrolls by to quickly, then use a /p switch and/or the /w switch. The /p switch will allow you to see a page at a time. The /w switch makes the list wide. dir d:\ /p If at any time you want to abort the switch/es and and get back to the prompt, press ctrl+c. And now the question of the updated files for the larger HDD come to mind as well. Because I decided to proceed with installing Gold and as soon as completed run the SE upgrade CD. But the scandisk reported numerous errors on C. Other partitions OK. It reported a folder named BAER which aroused my curiosity as I have never had any program, etc. associated with that name on my machine, to the best of my knowledge of course. Was it a fresh install or overinstall? Is there more than one HD installed? If so, have there always been? Have you run a drive integrity check with the manufacturers utlity to make sure the disk is not failing? Any help is greatly appreciated because I really want to avoid this mess again. Current result is that everything will have to be reinstalled. Machine is currently running and everything remains on the other partitions, so most of my data is obviously OK. But on the C drive I have a ton of DIR folders and almost 300 filexxxx.chk files. Registry was obviously lost, hence the total reinstall. And after much sifting, I will likely find most of the other data in those DIR's. Sounds like an fdisk/format/reinstall time. Definitely check the drive integrity, that's a lot of scandisks .chk files. After too many failed tape recovery systems, I had decided to dabble with external USB HDD. Thoughts on this are welcome as well and BTW this isn't going to well either. Can't break 15MB/s on USB2. And it came with GHOST, which I have yet installed. I had picked up a copy of Partition Magic 8 at the same time. At least one of these I tried to install and it failed, crashed. I thought I uninstalled, but later found folders/files, associated with some security company that Norton may use as part of antipiracy. I got rid of what I was aware in that area, but now wonder if there was some remnant left that timed out at the 30 day not registered and could have went haywire. What search I've done indicates dibeng.dll or was it dib32.dll need replacing, causation for the vmm32.vxd error, but the files exist in the created DIR's, possibly indicating as well that everything just got scrambled. Definitely need to Get Around to It, and make that bullet proof back up that will act as a recovery. -- Brian A. Sesko { MS MVP_Shell/User } Conflicts start where information lacks. http://basconotw.mvps.org/ Suggested posting do's/don'ts: http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 |
Get rid of the current partition, don't reformat it.
Your backup may be bad too. USB2 will not work at high speed unless in the proper OS environment. Real mode msdos is not one of them. For partition backups, am continuing to use DriveImage 2002 for all FAT32 partitions on this PC. Its very hard to find nowadays. Will not allow highspeed USB operation though in the recovery, uses msdos environment. Am using a ide adapter, and hard drive connected to that for recovery source. Basically foolproof. "E_Net_Rider" wrote in message ... I would like to have some idea of what hit me. A few mornings back, I find the computer with the vmm32.vxd missing message. Now that I think about it, something must have forced it to reboot as well. To complicate matters, this was an upgraded machine, and the upgrade disk going to SE is the one that only works on 98. That is the machine has to be up and running to install it. And the machine has no floppy and I never got around to making a bootable CD. I manage to get into DOS and get into the windows directory. There are only three folders and most of the files are missing. Are the other partitions of the 80 GB HDD accessible in DOS? Maybe it was me? And now the question of the updated files for the larger HDD come to mind as well. Because I decided to proceed with installing Gold and as soon as completed run the SE upgrade CD. But the scandisk reported numerous errors on C. Other partitions OK. It reported a folder named BAER which aroused my curiosity as I have never had any program, etc. associated with that name on my machine, to the best of my knowledge of course. Any help is greatly appreciated because I really want to avoid this mess again. Current result is that everything will have to be reinstalled. Machine is currently running and everything remains on the other partitions, so most of my data is obviously OK. But on the C drive I have a ton of DIR folders and almost 300 filexxxx.chk files. Registry was obviously lost, hence the total reinstall. And after much sifting, I will likely find most of the other data in those DIR's. After too many failed tape recovery systems, I had decided to dabble with external USB HDD. Thoughts on this are welcome as well and BTW this isn't going to well either. Can't break 15MB/s on USB2. And it came with GHOST, which I have yet installed. I had picked up a copy of Partition Magic 8 at the same time. At least one of these I tried to install and it failed, crashed. I thought I uninstalled, but later found folders/files, associated with some security company that Norton may use as part of antipiracy. I got rid of what I was aware in that area, but now wonder if there was some remnant left that timed out at the 30 day not registered and could have went haywire. What search I've done indicates dibeng.dll or was it dib32.dll need replacing, causation for the vmm32.vxd error, but the files exist in the created DIR's, possibly indicating as well that everything just got scrambled. Definitely need to Get Around to It, and make that bullet proof back up that will act as a recovery. Norman |
Thanks for the list.
I have to ask if any are known to be able to make a solid back up to medium that only requires putting in the medium and letting it run to get back where one was? Supposedly GHOST will do that, but I haven't yet tried. I had read in these ms groups where the tendency was to favor bootItNG maybe, but there was a sale, but now I've missed the rebate date with all the hassle. So unlikely near as good a bargain. Definitely humor in "should things get worse". Can't imagine how at this point, unless the drive up and totally dies losing what data is available. Which is another subject. Which medium is best? Norman "PCR" wrote in message ... | Definitely need to Get Around to It, and make that bullet proof back up that | will act as a recovery. Once you have a functioning system, especially one close to a clean install, do a full system backup. If you have multiple partitions, I guess a backup is a bit more complex. It depends upon the ties between the Registry & the other partitions, as to whether they must be backed up concurrently. Also, if you've changed the hardware since the backup, you may need to change it back before a restore. http://home.satx.rr.com/badour/index.html Backup & partitioning strategy http://home.wanadoo.nl/geurt/home.html Extended Operating System Loader http://www.acronis.com/products/trueimage/ TrueImage http://www.arjsoftware.com ARJ Archiver http://www.betterbackup.com/ Retrospect CD Backup http://www.bootitng.com/ 's BootIt NG, has a variety of backup capabilities: Copy to HDD, or Image to HDD or to CD. (TBIView, freely downloadable, can retrieve individual files from an Image.) Shrink/expand your partitions without data loss. Multi-boot, if you dare. Free, run from floppy, but pay up as I did if satisfied. To install & use beyond 30 days, $34.95. http://www.cdrfaq.org/ CD R/W Backup http://www.cyberiapc.com/backup.htm MyOwnBackup (MOB) (Free) http://www.han-soft.com/habt.php Auto Backup (30-day free trial) http://www.hp.com/cgi-bin/cposupport...&p=hpcdwriter2 Simple Backup http://www.karenware.com/ PtReplicator (Free) http://www.lifesaverbackup.com/ http://www.mvps.org/links.html Should have good info http://www.pcmag.com/ Lots & lots of sturdy downloads. There is a $20 yearly charge now. http://www.powerquest.com/partitionmagic Partition Magic http://www.ranish.com/part/ Ranish Partition Manager http://www.rescue-me.net/gold.html http://www.simtel.net/pub/dl/58307.shtml Backups http://www.stompinc.com/bump/bump_details.phtml?stp Backup MyPC http://www.thirdstar.net/thirdstar_datarecovery.htm Data recovery http://www.tomsterdam.com/ BU process, performance, etc. http://www.v-com.com/product/pc_ind.html Partition Commander http://www.veritas.com Backup apps http://www.xxcopy.com/ Detailed Procedure Copy (Free) http://www.zeleps.com/ Partition re-sizer (Free) All gathered at this site. Whichever you choose, approach it carefully and verify all is well. After making a copy, run Scandisk/Defrag on it. If it's an Image, use it's verify option; perhaps, restore it and do a Scandisk/Defrag. http://www.pchelpandconsulting.com/links/windows.html WinDrvExpert http://www.jermar.com/wdrvbck.htm WinDrvBckup free version Those two supposedly back up all currently installed drivers, such that they can be reinstalled. I never tried it but have seen a favorable report/three-- & one (by Glee) that was so-so (or worse). SO, BETTER make a full system backup, before wiping Windows. -- Thanks or Good Luck, There may be humor in this post, and, Naturally, you will not sue, should things get worse after this, PCR "E_Net_Rider" wrote in message ... | I would like to have some idea of what hit me. | A few mornings back, I find the computer with the vmm32.vxd missing message. | Now that I think about it, something must have forced it to reboot as well. | To complicate matters, this was an upgraded machine, and the upgrade disk | going to SE is the one that only works on 98. That is the machine has to be | up and running to install it. And the machine has no floppy and I never got | around to making a bootable CD. I manage to get into DOS and get into the | windows directory. There are only three folders and most of the files are | missing. | | Are the other partitions of the 80 GB HDD accessible in DOS? Maybe it was | me? | And now the question of the updated files for the larger HDD come to mind as | well. Because I decided to proceed with installing Gold and as soon as | completed run the SE upgrade CD. But the scandisk reported numerous errors | on C. Other partitions OK. It reported a folder named BAER which aroused my | curiosity as I have never had any program, etc. associated with that name on | my machine, to the best of my knowledge of course. | | Any help is greatly appreciated because I really want to avoid this mess | again. Current result is that everything will have to be reinstalled. | Machine is currently running and everything remains on the other partitions, | so most of my data is obviously OK. But on the C drive I have a ton of DIR | folders and almost 300 filexxxx.chk files. Registry was obviously lost, | hence the total reinstall. And after much sifting, I will likely find most | of the other data in those DIR's. | | After too many failed tape recovery systems, I had decided to dabble with | external USB HDD. Thoughts on this are welcome as well and BTW this isn't | going to well either. Can't break 15MB/s on USB2. And it came with GHOST, | which I have yet installed. I had picked up a copy of Partition Magic 8 at | the same time. At least one of these I tried to install and it failed, | crashed. I thought I uninstalled, but later found folders/files, associated | with some security company that Norton may use as part of antipiracy. I got | rid of what I was aware in that area, but now wonder if there was some | remnant left that timed out at the 30 day not registered and could have went | haywire. What search I've done indicates dibeng.dll or was it dib32.dll need | replacing, causation for the vmm32.vxd error, but the files exist in the | created DIR's, possibly indicating as well that everything just got | scrambled. | | Definitely need to Get Around to It, and make that bullet proof back up that | will act as a recovery. | | Norman | | |
Thanks Brian,
And to help keep it clear I'll interleave my response as well. "Brian A." gonefish'n@afarawaylake wrote in message ... "E_Net_Rider" wrote in message ... At least to me, your post mind boggling. Answers inline on what I can make any sense of. I would like to have some idea of what hit me. A few mornings back, I find the computer with the vmm32.vxd missing message. Error Message: Cannot Find a Device File That May Be Needed to Run Windows http://support.microsoft.com/default...;en-us;Q132008 Err Msg: Cannot Find a Device File That May Be Needed to Run... http://support.microsoft.com/default...;en-us;Q166832 Neither apply as I could get that far. The error message was something like, Windows needs vmm32.vxd to start. Since this is a made up file upon install, if it is in the cabs, it is a basic one. Now that I think about it, it might have allowed me to start at least, but I have to wonder if my problem wasn't much more complex. Now that I think about it, something must have forced it to reboot as well. To complicate matters, this was an upgraded machine, and the upgrade disk going to SE is the one that only works on 98. That is the machine has to be up and running to install it. And the machine has no floppy and I never got around to making a bootable CD. I manage to get into DOS and get into the windows directory. There are only three folders and most of the files are missing. You can create a 98 boot disk from any other 98 machine or get one at: http://www.bootdisk.com/ Please read Read1st in the right pane for instructions on how to create the boot disk from the downloaded file. I went there, expecting to find a ready to burn to cd image for booting to cd. I'll try again, maybe I missed that first paragraph. Then again I may have been tired and frustrated. Are the other partitions of the 80 GB HDD accessible in DOS? Maybe it was me? If they are there, yes. At the prompt type: d: and press Enter dir d:\ and press Enter When I tried "cd e:\" it gave me invalid directory? d: is normally my swap file. If the drive has many folders/files and scrolls by to quickly, then use a /p switch and/or the /w switch. The /p switch will allow you to see a page at a time. The /w switch makes the list wide. dir d:\ /p If at any time you want to abort the switch/es and and get back to the prompt, press ctrl+c. The /p is a necessity and thankful it exists. ctrl+c I haven't used as I recall. The way you wrote it, it sounds like some switches can be sticky? And now the question of the updated files for the larger HDD come to mind as well. Because I decided to proceed with installing Gold and as soon as completed run the SE upgrade CD. But the scandisk reported numerous errors on C. Other partitions OK. It reported a folder named BAER which aroused my curiosity as I have never had any program, etc. associated with that name on my machine, to the best of my knowledge of course. Was it a fresh install or overinstall? Is there more than one HD installed? If so, have there always been? Have you run a drive integrity check with the manufacturers utlity to make sure the disk is not failing? Just one HDD, unless you count my attempts at getting a USB to work as advertised. The main drive was upgraded and then the OS was reinstalled a few times to correct problems. And again, because it is the 98 to SE disk, it will not run unless you are in normal mode. The BIOS of this MOBO is a little strange to me and I haven't yet got a grasp on some of the settings, which I don't know if that has anything to do with what I am about to write. It is a WD drive. I have their tools CD, ver 11 I think. When I would try to boot to it, it would start to do the loading showing it loaded CD driver, DrDos, etc. and when it would get to the point it might have thrown up the utilities on screen, it would freeze. Several attempts gave the same result. BIOS has a setting to protect against flashing it, but it seems to me some machines have a setting to protect the MBR, which I don't have. Putting my hands into the box, and bumping power cables, I did notice and itermittant loss of power to the HDD, which I hadn't noticed at all before. I can hear it spin and the lights never indicated a fail. Yet on the cautious side, I inspected a couple of connectors and noticed that the copper, maybe, certainly not gold, were starting to discolor, darken, indicating a normal surface oxidation. There is a grease available at automotive centers intended for light bulb sockets. The old stuff often used was lubriplate, but you need to be carefull as to brand as some are slightly conductive. This new stuff looks similar to pure silicone grease, a whitish translucent color. I lightly coated all pins on the power connectors and put back together, for obvious preventative reasons. Still was in the usuall predicament, but I think it was this time that it finally loaded that WD utilities. Only obvious thing would be that the power was totally off for maybe an hour. And BTW, the utilities on that CD said everything was OK. Even replaced the MBR with a backed up copy created when the HDD was installed, and that didn't help either. And also it wouldn't try to boot to the W98 install disk either, earlier. Nor the ME disk I have. But because the WD utility would try to load it's version of DOS, the drive was obviously working. Makes me suspicious of something? Any help is greatly appreciated because I really want to avoid this mess again. Current result is that everything will have to be reinstalled. Machine is currently running and everything remains on the other partitions, so most of my data is obviously OK. But on the C drive I have a ton of DIR folders and almost 300 filexxxx.chk files. Registry was obviously lost, hence the total reinstall. And after much sifting, I will likely find most of the other data in those DIR's. Sounds like an fdisk/format/reinstall time. Definitely check the drive integrity, that's a lot of scandisks .chk files. Added thought. Beginning to think the drive was dieing, I put a brand new drive I had laying around into the machine, and initially it would do nothing either, as to looking at the CD's. When it got back to working that far, I switched the connectors back to the original drive, hoping to salvage, actually hoping it would boot. That is when I found the mess of the files with missing directories and supposedly bad files. Also why I got the afterthought of possibly the upgraded scandisk, format, or is it fdisk & scan reg might have been involved. That is, do the old versions on the install CD's have a problem with................... Oops. Now that I think about it, maybe this was the culprit. 80GB HDD. Largest partition was like 34 GB. Would this have been a compatibility problem? That is the old version of scandisk on the CD? Norman After too many failed tape recovery systems, I had decided to dabble with external USB HDD. Thoughts on this are welcome as well and BTW this isn't going to well either. Can't break 15MB/s on USB2. And it came with GHOST, which I have yet installed. I had picked up a copy of Partition Magic 8 at the same time. At least one of these I tried to install and it failed, crashed. I thought I uninstalled, but later found folders/files, associated with some security company that Norton may use as part of antipiracy. I got rid of what I was aware in that area, but now wonder if there was some remnant left that timed out at the 30 day not registered and could have went haywire. What search I've done indicates dibeng.dll or was it dib32.dll need replacing, causation for the vmm32.vxd error, but the files exist in the created DIR's, possibly indicating as well that everything just got scrambled. Definitely need to Get Around to It, and make that bullet proof back up that will act as a recovery. -- Brian A. Sesko { MS MVP_Shell/User } Conflicts start where information lacks. http://basconotw.mvps.org/ Suggested posting do's/don'ts: http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 |
"E_Net_Rider" wrote in message ... [snip] When I tried "cd e:\" it gave me invalid directory? d: is normally my swap file. Might not matter, but to get to the e:\ drive, just type e: ,at the C:\ prompt and press Enter. Ex: C:\e: and press Enter. Then at the E:\ prompt , you can type dir /p to see what directories are in there, if any.(Ex: E:\dir /p) What you did was try to cd (change directory) to a directory called e:\, which does not exist because it is a drive, not a directory. Sorry to butt in. [snip] Brian A. Sesko { MS MVP_Shell/User } Conflicts start where information lacks. http://basconotw.mvps.org/ Suggested posting do's/don'ts: http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 |
Backups seem to be a somewhat confusing problem.
Much of it might stem from my first experiences of trying to use MSBackup W95 followed by Colorado Bu for the tape drive, which seems was W3.1, not 32bit and somewhat proprietary as to medium and throw in Seagate which allowed a larger medium on the same drive. This was closer to W98 MSBackup, yet differences. Toss in a number of attempts to back up to CD's with different packages and learn that multi-session burns may not be compatible across different burners or software packages. Yes I'm very confused. If I understand your strategy, you use DriveImage to back up individual partitions, all being FAT32. Is that a requirement? Do you run multiple OS? I have noted that the USB drive will get loaded as if a regular IDE drive, that is it shows up in explorer with other partitions of the main drive shifted. Hence, I must remember to remove it before rebooting. Somewhat a pain, and I haven't found a way around this. Yet, oddly the USB2 port seems to be a separate dedicated jack on the machine. Yet since it appears to be loading in dos, or at least that low level, I have to wonder if there is a way to copy it back to the main drive without loading the OS? Is that the method you are using? Do you know if it works for ME with its very limited DOS? XP? I hate to have to buy tons of software I already own in some form simply because MS deems it old. Sort of sounds like you are removing the drive from its USB housing and then hooking up on its IDE connector??? Reminds me of another trick that might be possible. Using the copy function in the new drive utilities. The way the one for WD works is that you could copy to larger or smaller partitions as long as there is room for the data on that partition. Also has a neat trick in that you can set up the new drive for FAT32 and copy from a FAT16 drive. This I know works, at least in the versions that came on the floppies. I'm not sure that I've used the CD version for that. This would give an up to date copy of your main drive although it might require fooling with hooking and unhooking. But then it brings up whether you are copying something questionable over a good? So are you doing incremental backups? I'm thinking that an active drive is doing automatic refreshs of data on the drive. Possibly a function of the IDE internal drive electronics. Does anyone have an idea how long the data on the disk will remain good on a powered down drive? Since this is a rewritable medium I wouldn't expect it to last as long as a CDR, or maybe even a CDRW. But then maybe enough difference in the technology. Since I don't know anything of DriveImage, except it was touted a good product and much cheaper before Norton bought it (Symantec), I hope you continue to have good luck with it. Whether I try it or not will be based upon it's prospects for the future, XP may be in my future whether I like it or not. And if it not only gives the total restore you claim, although I didn't clearly understand your procedure, but whether it offers some incremental. That is, once I'm sure I've gotten a solid, mostly installed other packages as well, running system, I can make such a total install image. Maybe even make incrementals during the install because of the tremendous amount of time involved in reaching that point without having trouble. (ME has that restore feature which can be very useful). From that point, I'd like to do a major backup, maybe monthly, and retain the previous backup just in case. Of course routine incrementals at least weekly covering any new installs or uninstalls and hopefully, if necessary a separate program just placing a data backup, daily at least, somewhere that might be saved off system or to a separate partition etc. And the more automatic the better. The daily of data I might handle internally by sending them to the other computer. My rambling is evidence of the confusion. Is anything really bullet proof? Norman "Lil' Dave" wrote in message ... Get rid of the current partition, don't reformat it. Your backup may be bad too. USB2 will not work at high speed unless in the proper OS environment. Real mode msdos is not one of them. For partition backups, am continuing to use DriveImage 2002 for all FAT32 partitions on this PC. Its very hard to find nowadays. Will not allow highspeed USB operation though in the recovery, uses msdos environment. Am using a ide adapter, and hard drive connected to that for recovery source. Basically foolproof. "E_Net_Rider" wrote in message ... I would like to have some idea of what hit me. A few mornings back, I find the computer with the vmm32.vxd missing message. Now that I think about it, something must have forced it to reboot as well. To complicate matters, this was an upgraded machine, and the upgrade disk going to SE is the one that only works on 98. That is the machine has to be up and running to install it. And the machine has no floppy and I never got around to making a bootable CD. I manage to get into DOS and get into the windows directory. There are only three folders and most of the files are missing. Are the other partitions of the 80 GB HDD accessible in DOS? Maybe it was me? And now the question of the updated files for the larger HDD come to mind as well. Because I decided to proceed with installing Gold and as soon as completed run the SE upgrade CD. But the scandisk reported numerous errors on C. Other partitions OK. It reported a folder named BAER which aroused my curiosity as I have never had any program, etc. associated with that name on my machine, to the best of my knowledge of course. Any help is greatly appreciated because I really want to avoid this mess again. Current result is that everything will have to be reinstalled. Machine is currently running and everything remains on the other partitions, so most of my data is obviously OK. But on the C drive I have a ton of DIR folders and almost 300 filexxxx.chk files. Registry was obviously lost, hence the total reinstall. And after much sifting, I will likely find most of the other data in those DIR's. After too many failed tape recovery systems, I had decided to dabble with external USB HDD. Thoughts on this are welcome as well and BTW this isn't going to well either. Can't break 15MB/s on USB2. And it came with GHOST, which I have yet installed. I had picked up a copy of Partition Magic 8 at the same time. At least one of these I tried to install and it failed, crashed. I thought I uninstalled, but later found folders/files, associated with some security company that Norton may use as part of antipiracy. I got rid of what I was aware in that area, but now wonder if there was some remnant left that timed out at the 30 day not registered and could have went haywire. What search I've done indicates dibeng.dll or was it dib32.dll need replacing, causation for the vmm32.vxd error, but the files exist in the created DIR's, possibly indicating as well that everything just got scrambled. Definitely need to Get Around to It, and make that bullet proof back up that will act as a recovery. Norman |
Not butting, very thankful. Who said I was a DOS dummy? (;-
Thanks for eliminating a small frustration. Norman "Buffalo" wrote in message ... "E_Net_Rider" wrote in message ... [snip] When I tried "cd e:\" it gave me invalid directory? d: is normally my swap file. Might not matter, but to get to the e:\ drive, just type e: ,at the C:\ prompt and press Enter. Ex: C:\e: and press Enter. Then at the E:\ prompt , you can type dir /p to see what directories are in there, if any.(Ex: E:\dir /p) What you did was try to cd (change directory) to a directory called e:\, which does not exist because it is a drive, not a directory. Sorry to butt in. [snip] Brian A. Sesko { MS MVP_Shell/User } Conflicts start where information lacks. http://basconotw.mvps.org/ Suggested posting do's/don'ts: http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 |
I haven't analyzed all of those, & at least one of the URLs doesn't even
work. I do believe BootIT NG will do what you want-- boot from a CD & restore an Image, but, although I do own that one, I haven't gotten that fancy yet with it. I merely make a copy (not an Image) of C: to D: on another HDD every so often. But that HDD is permanently attached. Both are fully available to Windows when I boot. It is possible to go to a removable, but, sorry, that is also beyond my experience. The site has plenty of info, though... http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/index.html -- Thanks or Good Luck, There may be humor in this post, and, Naturally, you will not sue, should things get worse after this, PCR "E_Net_Rider" wrote in message ... | Thanks for the list. | I have to ask if any are known to be able to make a solid back up to medium | that only requires putting in the medium and letting it run to get back | where one was? Supposedly GHOST will do that, but I haven't yet tried. I had | read in these ms groups where the tendency was to favor bootItNG maybe, but | there was a sale, but now I've missed the rebate date with all the hassle. | So unlikely near as good a bargain. | Definitely humor in "should things get worse". | Can't imagine how at this point, unless the drive up and totally dies losing | what data is available. Which is another subject. Which medium is best? | Norman | | "PCR" wrote in message | ... | | Definitely need to Get Around to It, and make that bullet proof back | up that | | will act as a recovery. | | Once you have a functioning system, especially one close to a clean | install, do a full system backup. If you have multiple partitions, I | guess a backup is a bit more complex. It depends upon the ties between | the Registry & the other partitions, as to whether they must be backed | up concurrently. Also, if you've changed the hardware since the backup, | you may need to change it back before a restore. | | http://home.satx.rr.com/badour/index.html Backup & partitioning strategy | http://home.wanadoo.nl/geurt/home.html Extended Operating System Loader | http://www.acronis.com/products/trueimage/ TrueImage | http://www.arjsoftware.com ARJ Archiver | http://www.betterbackup.com/ Retrospect CD Backup | http://www.bootitng.com/ 's BootIt NG, has a variety of backup | capabilities: Copy to HDD, or Image to HDD or to CD. (TBIView, freely | downloadable, can retrieve individual files from an Image.) | Shrink/expand your partitions without data loss. Multi-boot, if you | dare. Free, run from floppy, but pay up as I did if satisfied. To | install & use beyond 30 days, $34.95. | http://www.cdrfaq.org/ CD R/W Backup | http://www.cyberiapc.com/backup.htm MyOwnBackup (MOB) (Free) | http://www.han-soft.com/habt.php Auto Backup (30-day free trial) | | http://www.hp.com/cgi-bin/cposupport...&p=hpcdwriter2 | Simple Backup | http://www.karenware.com/ PtReplicator (Free) | http://www.lifesaverbackup.com/ | http://www.mvps.org/links.html Should have good info | http://www.pcmag.com/ Lots & lots of sturdy downloads. There is a $20 | yearly charge now. | http://www.powerquest.com/partitionmagic Partition Magic | http://www.ranish.com/part/ Ranish Partition Manager | http://www.rescue-me.net/gold.html | http://www.simtel.net/pub/dl/58307.shtml Backups | http://www.stompinc.com/bump/bump_details.phtml?stp Backup MyPC | http://www.thirdstar.net/thirdstar_datarecovery.htm Data recovery | http://www.tomsterdam.com/ BU process, performance, etc. | http://www.v-com.com/product/pc_ind.html Partition Commander | http://www.veritas.com Backup apps | http://www.xxcopy.com/ Detailed Procedure Copy (Free) | http://www.zeleps.com/ Partition re-sizer (Free) | | All gathered at this site. Whichever you choose, approach it carefully | and verify all is well. After making a copy, run Scandisk/Defrag on it. | If it's an Image, use it's verify option; perhaps, restore it and do a | Scandisk/Defrag. | | http://www.pchelpandconsulting.com/links/windows.html WinDrvExpert | http://www.jermar.com/wdrvbck.htm WinDrvBckup free version | | Those two supposedly back up all currently installed drivers, such | that they can be reinstalled. I never tried it but have seen a favorable | report/three-- & one (by Glee) that was so-so (or worse). SO, BETTER | make a full system backup, before wiping Windows. | | | -- | Thanks or Good Luck, | There may be humor in this post, and, | Naturally, you will not sue, | should things get worse after this, | PCR | | "E_Net_Rider" wrote in message | ... | | I would like to have some idea of what hit me. | | A few mornings back, I find the computer with the vmm32.vxd missing | message. | | Now that I think about it, something must have forced it to reboot as | well. | | To complicate matters, this was an upgraded machine, and the upgrade | disk | | going to SE is the one that only works on 98. That is the machine has | to be | | up and running to install it. And the machine has no floppy and I | never got | | around to making a bootable CD. I manage to get into DOS and get into | the | | windows directory. There are only three folders and most of the files | are | | missing. | | | | Are the other partitions of the 80 GB HDD accessible in DOS? Maybe it | was | | me? | | And now the question of the updated files for the larger HDD come to | mind as | | well. Because I decided to proceed with installing Gold and as soon as | | completed run the SE upgrade CD. But the scandisk reported numerous | errors | | on C. Other partitions OK. It reported a folder named BAER which | aroused my | | curiosity as I have never had any program, etc. associated with that | name on | | my machine, to the best of my knowledge of course. | | | | Any help is greatly appreciated because I really want to avoid this | mess | | again. Current result is that everything will have to be reinstalled. | | Machine is currently running and everything remains on the other | partitions, | | so most of my data is obviously OK. But on the C drive I have a ton of | DIR | | folders and almost 300 filexxxx.chk files. Registry was obviously | lost, | | hence the total reinstall. And after much sifting, I will likely find | most | | of the other data in those DIR's. | | | | After too many failed tape recovery systems, I had decided to dabble | with | | external USB HDD. Thoughts on this are welcome as well and BTW this | isn't | | going to well either. Can't break 15MB/s on USB2. And it came with | GHOST, | | which I have yet installed. I had picked up a copy of Partition Magic | 8 at | | the same time. At least one of these I tried to install and it failed, | | crashed. I thought I uninstalled, but later found folders/files, | associated | | with some security company that Norton may use as part of antipiracy. | I got | | rid of what I was aware in that area, but now wonder if there was some | | remnant left that timed out at the 30 day not registered and could | have went | | haywire. What search I've done indicates dibeng.dll or was it | dib32.dll need | | replacing, causation for the vmm32.vxd error, but the files exist in | the | | created DIR's, possibly indicating as well that everything just got | | scrambled. | | | | Definitely need to Get Around to It, and make that bullet proof back | up that | | will act as a recovery. | | | | Norman | | | | | | | | |
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