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Unable to boot to Windows 98
I am having trouble restarting Windows 98. After resarting Windows, I am taken to the command prompt window, with the following message: "Windows detected registry/config error. Choose command prompt only, and run scanreg". 1.When I run scanreg under the command prompt, I am taken to the Microsoft Registry Checker page. After several minutes checking the registry files, a C:\ prompt appears and it just hangs. 2. When I restarted windows and run normal mode, scandisk indicates that it is now checking device C for errors. After hanging for several minutes, the following error message appears: "Scandisk encountered a data error while reading FAT on Drive C. This prevents scandisk from fixing the problem." Then I am sent back to MS WIndows 98 screen, where it hangs. I tried following the instructions from Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 221512; How to Manually Restore the Windows 98/Me Registry. But I get an error message at the scanreg\restore command [bad command]. Thank you. Ralph |
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Unable to boot to Windows 98
The key is the 2nd part where scandisk cannot run due to errors surrounding
that file allocation table (FAT). You ain't going nowhere until this is fixed. "Ralph Davis" wrote in message ... I am having trouble restarting Windows 98. After resarting Windows, I am taken to the command prompt window, with the following message: "Windows detected registry/config error. Choose command prompt only, and run scanreg". 1.When I run scanreg under the command prompt, I am taken to the Microsoft Registry Checker page. After several minutes checking the registry files, a C:\ prompt appears and it just hangs. 2. When I restarted windows and run normal mode, scandisk indicates that it is now checking device C for errors. After hanging for several minutes, the following error message appears: "Scandisk encountered a data error while reading FAT on Drive C. This prevents scandisk from fixing the problem." Then I am sent back to MS WIndows 98 screen, where it hangs. I tried following the instructions from Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 221512; How to Manually Restore the Windows 98/Me Registry. But I get an error message at the scanreg\restore command [bad command]. Thank you. Ralph |
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Unable to boot to Windows 98
On Mon, 5 Jul 2004 13:33:23 -0700, "Ralph Davis"
wrote: I am having trouble restarting Windows 98. After resarting Windows, I am taken to the command prompt window, with the following message: "Windows detected registry/config error. Choose command prompt only, and run scanreg". 1.When I run scanreg under the command prompt, I am taken to the Microsoft Registry Checker page. After several minutes checking the registry files, a C:\ prompt appears and it just hangs. 2. When I restarted windows and run normal mode, scandisk indicates that it is now checking device C for errors. After hanging for several minutes, the following error message appears: "Scandisk encountered a data error while reading FAT on Drive C. This prevents scandisk from fixing the problem." Then I am sent back to MS WIndows 98 screen, where it hangs. I tried following the instructions from Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 221512; How to Manually Restore the Windows 98/Me Registry. But I get an error message at the scanreg\restore command [bad command]. Thank you. Ralph Ralph, That should be Scanreg /restore. Forward slash /. Otherwise you get the bad command error. I doubt if restoring a registry will help the FAT error though. The VFAT.VXD file is the Virtual File Allocation Table (FAT) Device 32-Bit File Access Provider (VFAT)(Base). The file may be corrupt so you might try restoring the file from the CD. Boot with a Win98 Startup diskette and enter EXT. Extract from=should be the Win98 folder on the CD. Answer the prompts and extract to the WINDOWS\SYSTEM\VMM32 folder. Don't specify a CAB file, EXT will search all the CAB files for vfat.vxd. Try restoring a previous registry from before the problem started and try extracting the file and see what happens. Remove the diskette and reboot. Regards, Bill Watt Computer Help and Information http://home.epix.net/~bwatt/ |
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