installing windows

Ive just formatted my HDD and tried to reinstall and i get

"Bad fault in MS-DOS Extender"

Ive reset the CMOS, changed ram, CPU, hdd and still nothing

ive tried another boot disk as well, still no difference

If you formatted the drive already, then you must have been able to boot to
the Windows Startup floppy disk, correct? Does it now not boot? Or is this
error occurring later on? If later on, when, exactly, does this error occur?

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User

"b21playa" wrote in message
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Ive just formatted my HDD and tried to reinstall and i get

"Bad fault in MS-DOS Extender"

Ive reset the CMOS, changed ram, CPU, hdd and still nothing

ive tried another boot disk as well, still no difference


--
b21playa

On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 14:30:21 +0100, b21playa
wrote:


Ive just formatted my HDD and tried to reinstall and i get

"Bad fault in MS-DOS Extender"

Ive reset the CMOS, changed ram, CPU, hdd and still nothing

ive tried another boot disk as well, still no difference

Usually that happens when the HDD is wrongly partitioned, even if Fdisk had
been used. In this case Fdisk from Win95/98 may not correct this problem --
but there are several ways to solve it. I prefer Bootit Next Generation,
www.bootitng.com (30-day fully functional shareware).

You can download bootitng.zip from there, unpack the archive, and run the
extracted Bootitng.exe to create a bootable diskette. Boot from this diskette,
cancel "Continue" window, confirm the next message, and select Partition Work
button at the left.

As I understood, your HDD contains no data. Then delete all the partitions of
it (were there a data on HDD -- it would be lost at this step), and create the
primary FAT32 partition with the size of your choice, with formatting. In a
few seconds, after format is finished, you can cancel Surface Test to save
your time.

Make this partition active.

Quit Partition Work, and quit Bootit NG (a button at the right bottom of its
window). Remove BootitNG diskette, and insert your Win98 setup diskette.

I think, all will be Ok after that.

--
Mikhail Zhilin
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
http://www.aha.ru/~mwz
Sorry, no technical support by e-mail.
Please reply to the newsgroups only.
======

On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 09:51:03 -0700, "Gary S. Terhune"
wrote:

If you formatted the drive already, then you must have been able to boot to
the Windows Startup floppy disk, correct? Does it now not boot? Or is this
error occurring later on? If later on, when, exactly, does this error occur?

Gary, that is the message on DOS screen, after Setup stops with
SUWIN ERROR can't recall the number and closes itself after pressing Ok.

My further explanations are in the main part of this thread.

--
Mikhail Zhilin
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
http://www.aha.ru/~mwz
Sorry, no technical support by e-mail.
Please reply to the newsgroups only.
======

'K, thanks, Mikhail. I see you have it handled.

You coming to Seattle next month?

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Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User

"Mikhail Zhilin" wrote in message
...
On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 09:51:03 -0700, "Gary S. Terhune"
wrote:

If you formatted the drive already, then you must have been able to boot
to
the Windows Startup floppy disk, correct? Does it now not boot? Or is this
error occurring later on? If later on, when, exactly, does this error
occur?

Gary, that is the message on DOS screen, after Setup stops with
SUWIN ERROR can't recall the number and closes itself after pressing Ok.

My further explanations are in the main part of this thread.

--
Mikhail Zhilin
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
http://www.aha.ru/~mwz
Sorry, no technical support by e-mail.
Please reply to the newsgroups only.
======

On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 11:37:17 -0700, "Gary S. Terhune"
wrote:

'K, thanks, Mikhail. I see you have it handled.

You coming to Seattle next month?

Gary, at least I'm planning to be there.

--
Mikhail Zhilin
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
http://www.aha.ru/~mwz
Sorry, no technical support by e-mail.
Please reply to the newsgroups only.
======

Cool!

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User

"Mikhail Zhilin" wrote in message
...
On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 11:37:17 -0700, "Gary S. Terhune"
wrote:

'K, thanks, Mikhail. I see you have it handled.

You coming to Seattle next month?

Gary, at least I'm planning to be there.

--
Mikhail Zhilin
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
http://www.aha.ru/~mwz
Sorry, no technical support by e-mail.
Please reply to the newsgroups only.
======

Originally Posted by Mikhail Zhilin

Usually that happens when the HDD is wrongly partitioned, even if Fdisk had
been used. In this case Fdisk from Win95/98 may not correct this problem --
but there are several ways to solve it. I prefer Bootit Next Generation,
www.bootitng.com (30-day fully functional shareware).

You can download bootitng.zip from there, unpack the archive, and run the
extracted Bootitng.exe to create a bootable diskette. Boot from this diskette,
cancel "Continue" window, confirm the next message, and select Partition Work
button at the left.

As I understood, your HDD contains no data. Then delete all the partitions of
it (were there a data on HDD -- it would be lost at this step), and create the
primary FAT32 partition with the size of your choice, with formatting. In a
few seconds, after format is finished, you can cancel Surface Test to save
your time.

Make this partition active.

Quit Partition Work, and quit Bootit NG (a button at the right bottom of its
window). Remove BootitNG diskette, and insert your Win98 setup diskette.

I think, all will be Ok after that.

--
Mikhail Zhilin
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
http://www.aha.ru/~mwz
Sorry, no technical support by e-mail.
Please reply to the newsgroups only.
======

Hi i just tried that, i deleted old partition, created new one and still get the bad fault in MS-DOS extender, i even got fault outside extender once

anyone got any other ideas or solutions?

here are an article:

http://support.microsoft.com/default...kb;en-us;87239

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Jon Hildrum
DTS MVP

www.hildrum.com
"b21playa" wrote in message
...

Mikhail Zhilin Wrote:


Usually that happens when the HDD is wrongly partitioned, even if Fdisk
had
been used. In this case Fdisk from Win95/98 may not correct this
problem --
but there are several ways to solve it. I prefer Bootit Next
Generation,
www.bootitng.com (30-day fully functional shareware).

You can download bootitng.zip from there, unpack the archive, and run
the
extracted Bootitng.exe to create a bootable diskette. Boot from this
diskette,
cancel "Continue" window, confirm the next message, and select
Partition Work
button at the left.

As I understood, your HDD contains no data. Then delete all the
partitions of
it (were there a data on HDD -- it would be lost at this step), and
create the
primary FAT32 partition with the size of your choice, with formatting.
In a
few seconds, after format is finished, you can cancel Surface Test to
save
your time.

Make this partition active.

Quit Partition Work, and quit Bootit NG (a button at the right bottom
of its
window). Remove BootitNG diskette, and insert your Win98 setup
diskette.

I think, all will be Ok after that.

--
Mikhail Zhilin
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
http://www.aha.ru/~mwz
Sorry, no technical support by e-mail.
Please reply to the newsgroups only.
======

Hi i just tried that, i deleted old partition, created new one and
still get the bad fault in MS-DOS extender, i even got fault outside
extender once

anyone got any other ideas or solutions?


--
b21playa

If Jon's advice,
http://support.microsoft.com/default...kb;en-us;87239
won't help... What is the size of HDD?

There may be the similar problem if it is greater than 120GB.

--
Mikhail Zhilin
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
http://www.aha.ru/~mwz
Sorry, no technical support by e-mail.
Please reply to the newsgroups only.
======
On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 19:58:11 +0100, b21playa
wrote:


Mikhail Zhilin Wrote:

On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 14:30:21 +0100, b21playa wrote:

Ive just formatted my HDD and tried to reinstall and i get
"Bad fault in MS-DOS Extender"

..
Usually that happens when the HDD is wrongly partitioned, even if Fdisk
had been used. In this case Fdisk from Win95/98 may not correct this
problem -- but there are several ways to solve it. I prefer Bootit Next
Generation, www.bootitng.com (30-day fully functional shareware).
..

Hi i just tried that, i deleted old partition, created new one and
still get the bad fault in MS-DOS extender, i even got fault outside
extender once

anyone got any other ideas or solutions?