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Please Help .. VFD booting problem
I am trying to fix this darn HP Pavilion laptop for a guy a work ... It had a failure to load VFD.VXD system halted problem I did everything ... edited the msdos.sys file with all the suggestions (doublebuffering etc) ran scanreg /restore .. and restored it to every good registry backup no change .. " Failure to load VFD.VXD system halted" I did dir vfd*.* /s from the c: drive which showed that the file was NOT on the computer sooo .. I found a copy of the file and copied it to the windows/system folder ... now that error msg doesnt show .. but .. it acts like it is going to start up .. then says .. " IT IS NOW SAFE TO TURN OFF YOUR COMPUTER " I cant reinstall ME .. there are no disks with this machine .. so even If I did have a copy of ME .. I would have none of the drivers for the laptop that .. the ME installation would ask for. HELP !!!!!!!! |
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Please Help .. VFD booting problem
Probably not an answer you really want to hear - but here goes anyway..
vfd.vxd is a 'virtual device driver' which appears to be associated with your floppy drive (if fitted?). The fact that it wasn't to be found on the computer sounds like the tip of a dirty great iceberg g Why was it missing? What other (critical?) files are missing?? You say :- I did everything ... Everything? - Including System Restore?? edited the msdos.sys file with all the suggestions What suggestions? Why would you want to edit that file? What is the PC's history? What did your 'friend' do immediately before it failed? No disks, no drivers?? - Sounds like your 'friend' may have asked you to fix his lemon. Mart "Mike_in_SD" wrote in message ... I am trying to fix this darn HP Pavilion laptop for a guy a work ... It had a failure to load VFD.VXD system halted problem I did everything ... edited the msdos.sys file with all the suggestions (doublebuffering etc) ran scanreg /restore .. and restored it to every good registry backup no change .. " Failure to load VFD.VXD system halted" I did dir vfd*.* /s from the c: drive which showed that the file was NOT on the computer sooo .. I found a copy of the file and copied it to the windows/system folder ... now that error msg doesnt show .. but .. it acts like it is going to start up .. then says .. " IT IS NOW SAFE TO TURN OFF YOUR COMPUTER " I cant reinstall ME .. there are no disks with this machine .. so even If I did have a copy of ME .. I would have none of the drivers for the laptop that .. the ME installation would ask for. HELP !!!!!!!! |
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