fatal exception errors durring setup

I have had problems running and installing programs on my win98 machine, so I
tried to reinstall win98. Now I can't get past all the fatal exception errors
and the system hangs in bluescreen until turned off. I've tried step by step
confirmation startup skipping all the vxd files and that didn't work. I would
like to try setup again, but from the C drive instead of my CD ROM. I'm not
sure how to tell DOS to copy the setup directory from the CD ROM to the C
drive. Could someone tell me the command to type?

Katrina wrote:
I have had problems running and installing programs on my win98 machine, so I
tried to reinstall win98. Now I can't get past all the fatal exception errors
and the system hangs in bluescreen until turned off. I've tried step by step
confirmation startup skipping all the vxd files and that didn't work. I would
like to try setup again, but from the C drive instead of my CD ROM. I'm not
sure how to tell DOS to copy the setup directory from the CD ROM to the C
drive. Could someone tell me the command to type?


Katrina:

IF you can access the CD drive from a DOS prompt the command line
would be:

md c:\win98
copy CD Drive's Letter:\win98\*.* c:\win98

This will copy the contents of the CD's "win98" folder to a folder of
the same name on the C: drive. Once the files are copied:

cd c:\win98
setup

Should start the setup program.

If you do NOT have acces to the CD drive from a DOS prompt you need a
boot floppy that provides support for CD drives. You can download a
small utility that will create one for you at:

http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm

Almost any version will work just fine.

HTH & GL

john

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"Katrina" wrote in message
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I have had problems running and installing programs on my win98 machine,
so I
tried to reinstall win98. Now I can't get past all the fatal exception
errors
and the system hangs in bluescreen until turned off. I've tried step by
step
confirmation startup skipping all the vxd files and that didn't work. I
would
like to try setup again, but from the C drive instead of my CD ROM. I'm
not
sure how to tell DOS to copy the setup directory from the CD ROM to the C
drive. Could someone tell me the command to type?


run a ram test

or try different ram

Hi,
Thanks, I have reinstalled windows 98 and then I had to manually extract
many .dll files from the cabs and yet it was still giving me the invalid page
fault at module explorer.exe error then going to a blank screen. So I tried
scanreg /restore and scanreg/ fix, to no avail (from the command prompt). I
have tried editing and replacing shell=explorer.exe with shell=progman.exe in
the sys.ini file and running IE setup from there. However my latest version
of IE seems to have messed up the uninstall files and the repair tool with it
so I can't load any of the older IE versions that I have on my hard drive or
on my Windows 98SE disk. So I found IE 6 on a ISP provider CD and ran setup
from program manager. Then I edited sys.ini again so that shell=explorer.exe
and it finally loaded up to a regular win98 GUI.
------ Whew --------
Now back to my original problem installing any programs. I'll start a new
thread. Thanks for all your help (I read through dozens of posts).
Cheers!

"John Dulak" wrote:

Katrina wrote:
I have had problems running and installing programs on my win98 machine, so I
tried to reinstall win98. Now I can't get past all the fatal exception errors
and the system hangs in bluescreen until turned off. I've tried step by step
confirmation startup skipping all the vxd files and that didn't work. I would
like to try setup again, but from the C drive instead of my CD ROM. I'm not
sure how to tell DOS to copy the setup directory from the CD ROM to the C
drive. Could someone tell me the command to type?


Katrina:

IF you can access the CD drive from a DOS prompt the command line
would be:

md c:\win98
copy CD Drive's Letter:\win98\*.* c:\win98

This will copy the contents of the CD's "win98" folder to a folder of
the same name on the C: drive. Once the files are copied:

cd c:\win98
setup

Should start the setup program.

If you do NOT have acces to the CD drive from a DOS prompt you need a
boot floppy that provides support for CD drives. You can download a
small utility that will create one for you at:

http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm

Almost any version will work just fine.

HTH & GL

john

--
\\\||///
------------------o000----(o)(o)----000o----------------
----------------------------()--------------------------
'' Madness takes its toll - Please have exact change. ''

John Dulak - Gnomeway Services - http://tinyurl.com/2qs6o6