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Old May 10th 05, 07:14 PM
R.L. Barnhart
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I recently installed a new SATA hard drive in my computer along with my
existing ATA hard drive. I want the SATA drive to be my primary boot drive.
However, if the ATA drive is the boot drive, the system will not boot but if
the SATA drive is the boot drive, the system will boot but the SATA drive is
blank and I can't clone the ATA drive to the SATA drive because you can't
clone to a boot drive! I tried to clone from the ATA drive to the SATA drive
in SAFE mode but that was a disaster and both drives were corrupted.
I have since reconstructed the ATA drive. I then ran only the SATA drive and
was able to installed the operating system on it. I then reconnected tha ATA
drive as the secondary drive and transferred data from it to the SATA drive
using the COPY command. This was working but was very slow. Then when I was
reinstalling a program to the SATA drive the system froze and the SATA drive
became corrupted and would no longer boot. I received messages that the
VMM32.VXD file was corrupted or missing and to reinstall the OS which I have
done repeatedly but I continue to receive the same message. The VMM32.VXD
file does exit in the win/sys directory and it is also in the PATH
statement. I have read all of the MS-KB articles that are relevant and
impliment their suggestions regarding the VMM32.VXD file, the DIBENG.DLL
file and the WININIT.EXE file but to no avail. I don't want to reformat the
SATA drive and have to start over from scratch. Does anyone have a
solution/suggestion to resolve this dilemma?


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Old May 10th 05, 10:09 PM
Ron Martell
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"R.L. Barnhart" wrote:

I recently installed a new SATA hard drive in my computer along with my
existing ATA hard drive. I want the SATA drive to be my primary boot drive.
However, if the ATA drive is the boot drive, the system will not boot but if
the SATA drive is the boot drive, the system will boot but the SATA drive is
blank and I can't clone the ATA drive to the SATA drive because you can't
clone to a boot drive! I tried to clone from the ATA drive to the SATA drive
in SAFE mode but that was a disaster and both drives were corrupted.
I have since reconstructed the ATA drive. I then ran only the SATA drive and
was able to installed the operating system on it. I then reconnected tha ATA
drive as the secondary drive and transferred data from it to the SATA drive
using the COPY command. This was working but was very slow. Then when I was
reinstalling a program to the SATA drive the system froze and the SATA drive
became corrupted and would no longer boot. I received messages that the
VMM32.VXD file was corrupted or missing and to reinstall the OS which I have
done repeatedly but I continue to receive the same message. The VMM32.VXD
file does exit in the win/sys directory and it is also in the PATH
statement. I have read all of the MS-KB articles that are relevant and
impliment their suggestions regarding the VMM32.VXD file, the DIBENG.DLL
file and the WININIT.EXE file but to no avail. I don't want to reformat the
SATA drive and have to start over from scratch. Does anyone have a
solution/suggestion to resolve this dilemma?


Get a DOS mode cloning utility such as Copy/Wipe from www.bootitng.com
(has a free trial period). Boot your computer with a Startup Disk and
then use the disk cloning utility.

Note that it will expedite the copying process greatly if you put
smartdrv.exe onto the boot disk and run it before you start the
cloning utility.

Good luck


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

In memory of a dear friend Alex Nichol MVP
http://aumha.org/alex.htm
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Old May 12th 05, 10:25 PM
R.L. Barnhart
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"R.L. Barnhart" rlb
Thank you for your advise. I have downloaded and run the CopyWipe utility.
It appears to have copied the info form the ATA to the SATA drive
accurately, but when I run the SATA drive as the primary boot drive it will
not boot and I am receiving the same message as before "Cannot Start Windows
because VMM32.VXD was not found or is damaged. Run SetUp Again". I have run
the setup program again and still receive the same message. The ATA drive
when run without the SATA drive boots and runs fine but if the SATA drive is
connected as the Secondary drive, the ATA drive will not boot and I receive
the message 'Windows protection error while initializing device VCOMM. You
need to restart your computer'. I restart but get the same message again. It
appears that the SATA drive is causing the problem. Do you have any futher
ideas/suggestions?


----- Original Message -----
From: Ron Martell
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.win98.disks.general
Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 4:09 PM
Subject: WIN98SE BOOT PROBLEM


"R.L. Barnhart" wrote:

I recently installed a new SATA hard drive in my computer along with my
existing ATA hard drive. I want the SATA drive to be my primary boot drive.
However, if the ATA drive is the boot drive, the system will not boot but

if
the SATA drive is the boot drive, the system will boot but the SATA drive

is
blank and I can't clone the ATA drive to the SATA drive because you can't
clone to a boot drive! I tried to clone from the ATA drive to the SATA

drive
in SAFE mode but that was a disaster and both drives were corrupted.
I have since reconstructed the ATA drive. I then ran only the SATA drive

and
was able to installed the operating system on it. I then reconnected tha

ATA
drive as the secondary drive and transferred data from it to the SATA

drive
using the COPY command. This was working but was very slow. Then when I was
reinstalling a program to the SATA drive the system froze and the SATA

drive
became corrupted and would no longer boot. I received messages that the
VMM32.VXD file was corrupted or missing and to reinstall the OS which I

have
done repeatedly but I continue to receive the same message. The VMM32.VXD
file does exit in the win/sys directory and it is also in the PATH
statement. I have read all of the MS-KB articles that are relevant and
impliment their suggestions regarding the VMM32.VXD file, the DIBENG.DLL
file and the WININIT.EXE file but to no avail. I don't want to reformat the
SATA drive and have to start over from scratch. Does anyone have a
solution/suggestion to resolve this dilemma?


Get a DOS mode cloning utility such as Copy/Wipe from www.bootitng.com
(has a free trial period). Boot your computer with a Startup Disk and
then use the disk cloning utility.

Note that it will expedite the copying process greatly if you put
smartdrv.exe onto the boot disk and run it before you start the
cloning utility.

Good luck


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

In memory of a dear friend Alex Nichol MVP
http://aumha.org/alex.htm
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I recently installed a new SATA hard drive in my computer along with my
existing ATA hard drive. I want the SATA drive to be my primary boot drive.
However, if the ATA drive is the boot drive, the system will not boot but if
the SATA drive is the boot drive, the system will boot but the SATA drive is
blank and I can't clone the ATA drive to the SATA drive because you can't
clone to a boot drive! I tried to clone from the ATA drive to the SATA drive
in SAFE mode but that was a disaster and both drives were corrupted.
I have since reconstructed the ATA drive. I then ran only the SATA drive and
was able to installed the operating system on it. I then reconnected tha ATA
drive as the secondary drive and transferred data from it to the SATA drive
using the COPY command. This was working but was very slow. Then when I was
reinstalling a program to the SATA drive the system froze and the SATA drive
became corrupted and would no longer boot. I received messages that the
VMM32.VXD file was corrupted or missing and to reinstall the OS which I have
done repeatedly but I continue to receive the same message. The VMM32.VXD
file does exit in the win/sys directory and it is also in the PATH
statement. I have read all of the MS-KB articles that are relevant and
impliment their suggestions regarding the VMM32.VXD file, the DIBENG.DLL
file and the WININIT.EXE file but to no avail. I don't want to reformat the
SATA drive and have to start over from scratch. Does anyone have a
solution/suggestion to resolve this dilemma?


 




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