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Had a great fall ! -SE style
I would like to have some idea of what hit me.
A few mornings back, I find the computer with the vmm32.vxd missing message. Now that I think about it, something must have forced it to reboot as well. To complicate matters, this was an upgraded machine, and the upgrade disk going to SE is the one that only works on 98. That is the machine has to be up and running to install it. And the machine has no floppy and I never got around to making a bootable CD. I manage to get into DOS and get into the windows directory. There are only three folders and most of the files are missing. Are the other partitions of the 80 GB HDD accessible in DOS? Maybe it was me? And now the question of the updated files for the larger HDD come to mind as well. Because I decided to proceed with installing Gold and as soon as completed run the SE upgrade CD. But the scandisk reported numerous errors on C. Other partitions OK. It reported a folder named BAER which aroused my curiosity as I have never had any program, etc. associated with that name on my machine, to the best of my knowledge of course. Any help is greatly appreciated because I really want to avoid this mess again. Current result is that everything will have to be reinstalled. Machine is currently running and everything remains on the other partitions, so most of my data is obviously OK. But on the C drive I have a ton of DIR folders and almost 300 filexxxx.chk files. Registry was obviously lost, hence the total reinstall. And after much sifting, I will likely find most of the other data in those DIR's. After too many failed tape recovery systems, I had decided to dabble with external USB HDD. Thoughts on this are welcome as well and BTW this isn't going to well either. Can't break 15MB/s on USB2. And it came with GHOST, which I have yet installed. I had picked up a copy of Partition Magic 8 at the same time. At least one of these I tried to install and it failed, crashed. I thought I uninstalled, but later found folders/files, associated with some security company that Norton may use as part of antipiracy. I got rid of what I was aware in that area, but now wonder if there was some remnant left that timed out at the 30 day not registered and could have went haywire. What search I've done indicates dibeng.dll or was it dib32.dll need replacing, causation for the vmm32.vxd error, but the files exist in the created DIR's, possibly indicating as well that everything just got scrambled. Definitely need to Get Around to It, and make that bullet proof back up that will act as a recovery. Norman |
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