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Trying to find solutions...
I have a sort-of dual O.S. setup. I have Win98 on one hard disk and I have
Win XP on another. The first drive is from an older computer. Some of the programs that are on the old drive are useful to me but unfortunately, the hard drive is the only place they now exist. No backup CDs or anything else. I was trying to transfer the files from the Win98 drive to the Win XP drive but the programs do not work properly in XP. So I decided I would leave them where they were and just boot into the other hard drive via BIOS when necessary. However, the drive is not recognizing the new video card, so I tried to use the CD to upload the new drivers only to find that I had no access to the CD! Now I am also getting an error message at startup (in 98) that says: "Invalid VxD dynamic link call to device number 4F, service 74. Your Windows configuration is invalid. Run the Windows Setup program again..." Won't this overwrite everything? |
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Running setup will not overwrite everything. You need to determine why
Windows will not recognise the CD. Boot to safe mode and uninstall the CD drivers. Re-boot. Does Windows detect the CD drive and install drivers for it? In the meantime, boot to XP and copy the video card driver CD to the W98 hard disk drive. Install the drivers from the disk copy. -- Jeff Richards MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User) "stockwell513" wrote in message news I have a sort-of dual O.S. setup. I have Win98 on one hard disk and I have Win XP on another. The first drive is from an older computer. Some of the programs that are on the old drive are useful to me but unfortunately, the hard drive is the only place they now exist. No backup CDs or anything else. I was trying to transfer the files from the Win98 drive to the Win XP drive but the programs do not work properly in XP. So I decided I would leave them where they were and just boot into the other hard drive via BIOS when necessary. However, the drive is not recognizing the new video card, so I tried to use the CD to upload the new drivers only to find that I had no access to the CD! Now I am also getting an error message at startup (in 98) that says: "Invalid VxD dynamic link call to device number 4F, service 74. Your Windows configuration is invalid. Run the Windows Setup program again..." Won't this overwrite everything? |
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I booted to safe mode in W98 and ... oops, the CD doesn't appear either in
"My Computer" or in the Device Manager. What now? Also, to save time, I can't load my video drivers to W98 because I can't find the driver disk I just had 2 days ago!! Can I get these off the web? I know the exact model number for my video card. "Jeff Richards" wrote: Running setup will not overwrite everything. You need to determine why Windows will not recognise the CD. Boot to safe mode and uninstall the CD drivers. Re-boot. Does Windows detect the CD drive and install drivers for it? In the meantime, boot to XP and copy the video card driver CD to the W98 hard disk drive. Install the drivers from the disk copy. -- Jeff Richards MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User) "stockwell513" wrote in message news I have a sort-of dual O.S. setup. I have Win98 on one hard disk and I have Win XP on another. The first drive is from an older computer. Some of the programs that are on the old drive are useful to me but unfortunately, the hard drive is the only place they now exist. No backup CDs or anything else. I was trying to transfer the files from the Win98 drive to the Win XP drive but the programs do not work properly in XP. So I decided I would leave them where they were and just boot into the other hard drive via BIOS when necessary. However, the drive is not recognizing the new video card, so I tried to use the CD to upload the new drivers only to find that I had no access to the CD! Now I am also getting an error message at startup (in 98) that says: "Invalid VxD dynamic link call to device number 4F, service 74. Your Windows configuration is invalid. Run the Windows Setup program again..." Won't this overwrite everything? |
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That suggests the CD drive has failed. Replace it with a known-good unit.
-- Jeff Richards MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User) "stockwell513" wrote in message ... I booted to safe mode in W98 and ... oops, the CD doesn't appear either in "My Computer" or in the Device Manager. What now? Also, to save time, I can't load my video drivers to W98 because I can't find the driver disk I just had 2 days ago!! Can I get these off the web? I know the exact model number for my video card. "Jeff Richards" wrote: Running setup will not overwrite everything. You need to determine why Windows will not recognise the CD. Boot to safe mode and uninstall the CD drivers. Re-boot. Does Windows detect the CD drive and install drivers for it? In the meantime, boot to XP and copy the video card driver CD to the W98 hard disk drive. Install the drivers from the disk copy. -- Jeff Richards MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User) "stockwell513" wrote in message news I have a sort-of dual O.S. setup. I have Win98 on one hard disk and I have Win XP on another. The first drive is from an older computer. Some of the programs that are on the old drive are useful to me but unfortunately, the hard drive is the only place they now exist. No backup CDs or anything else. I was trying to transfer the files from the Win98 drive to the Win XP drive but the programs do not work properly in XP. So I decided I would leave them where they were and just boot into the other hard drive via BIOS when necessary. However, the drive is not recognizing the new video card, so I tried to use the CD to upload the new drivers only to find that I had no access to the CD! Now I am also getting an error message at startup (in 98) that says: "Invalid VxD dynamic link call to device number 4F, service 74. Your Windows configuration is invalid. Run the Windows Setup program again..." Won't this overwrite everything? |
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I can guarantee this is not right, because I can access the CD drive from
Windows XP. All I really need to know is: Where can I find the CD-ROM drivers in W98 (in the Windows directory presumably) so I can delete them manually? Also, if I do this will W98 then go looking elsewhere, like the CAB files, for the drivers and re-install them? Is this an approach I can take? "Jeff Richards" wrote: That suggests the CD drive has failed. Replace it with a known-good unit. -- Jeff Richards MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User) "stockwell513" wrote in message ... I booted to safe mode in W98 and ... oops, the CD doesn't appear either in "My Computer" or in the Device Manager. What now? Also, to save time, I can't load my video drivers to W98 because I can't find the driver disk I just had 2 days ago!! Can I get these off the web? I know the exact model number for my video card. "Jeff Richards" wrote: Running setup will not overwrite everything. You need to determine why Windows will not recognise the CD. Boot to safe mode and uninstall the CD drivers. Re-boot. Does Windows detect the CD drive and install drivers for it? In the meantime, boot to XP and copy the video card driver CD to the W98 hard disk drive. Install the drivers from the disk copy. -- Jeff Richards MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User) "stockwell513" wrote in message news I have a sort-of dual O.S. setup. I have Win98 on one hard disk and I have Win XP on another. The first drive is from an older computer. Some of the programs that are on the old drive are useful to me but unfortunately, the hard drive is the only place they now exist. No backup CDs or anything else. I was trying to transfer the files from the Win98 drive to the Win XP drive but the programs do not work properly in XP. So I decided I would leave them where they were and just boot into the other hard drive via BIOS when necessary. However, the drive is not recognizing the new video card, so I tried to use the CD to upload the new drivers only to find that I had no access to the CD! Now I am also getting an error message at startup (in 98) that says: "Invalid VxD dynamic link call to device number 4F, service 74. Your Windows configuration is invalid. Run the Windows Setup program again..." Won't this overwrite everything? |
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I thought you had said "only to find that I had no access to the CD!" It now
seems that you have access to the CD from XP. Copy the contents of the CD to the hard drive using XP. Reboot to Windows (or DOS) and reinstall the drivers you need from the hard drive copy of the CD. -- Jeff Richards MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User) "stockwell513" wrote in message ... I can guarantee this is not right, because I can access the CD drive from Windows XP. All I really need to know is: Where can I find the CD-ROM drivers in W98 (in the Windows directory presumably) so I can delete them manually? Also, if I do this will W98 then go looking elsewhere, like the CAB files, for the drivers and re-install them? Is this an approach I can take? "Jeff Richards" wrote: That suggests the CD drive has failed. Replace it with a known-good unit. -- Jeff Richards MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User) |
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