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Old October 13th 04, 09:03 PM
stockwell513
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Default 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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Old October 13th 04, 10:36 PM
Jeff Richards
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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?



  #3  
Old October 15th 04, 05:45 PM
stockwell513
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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?




  #4  
Old October 16th 04, 03:33 AM
Jeff Richards
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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?






  #5  
Old October 19th 04, 05:45 PM
stockwell513
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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?






  #6  
Old October 20th 04, 07:45 AM
Jeff Richards
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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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