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by **Dave Henri** » Tue, 21 May 2002 14:42:59

A friend of my wife got a business closeout computer. An insurance
company here got a completely new computer system so they sold all their old
systems very cheaply.
It's an HP with Phoenix bios and 64 megs of memory with S3 onboard video.
I have tried to re-install win98 but have come up with an error. the Hard
drive is 1.4 gigs btw.
After all the files have been copied, and the plug and play devices
detected, windows setup restarts and begins the final boot. But the startup
stops with this error:
vmm32.vxd is either no available or won't load.
I did load in safe mode and file search found the file right where is should
be, windows/system so what's the deal? Anyone know why this little ***
is holding up the booting process?
(ps...I did a clean format of the c drive as well, still got the same
error.)
dave henrie

by **Mitch_** » Tue, 21 May 2002 15:38:56

Try adding it to your autoexec.bat.

path=c:\windows\system

by **Chris H** » Tue, 21 May 2002 22:13:25

In addition to what Mitch posted, you can:

- At the command prompt, type:
dir vmm32.vxd /s
If the Vmm32.vxd file is not found, you must install Windows 95 or Windows
98 again. If the Vmm32.vxd file is found, note the folder in which it is
located, and then continue with step 2.

At the command prompt, type the following commands, pressing ENTER after
each command

cd windows
ren folder system
where folder is the folder you noted in step 1.

Restart your computer.

OR:
Using a text editor (such as Notepad), edit the Autoexec.bat file and add or
modify the PATH line so that it includes the Windows\System folder. For
example, add the following line to your Autoexec.bat file:
path=c:\windows\system
--
Chris H.

by **Tom Pabs** » Fri, 24 May 2002 05:32:44

Dave...

I think you used a Win98 upgrade cd....not a full install cd.

If she paid more than $25 for the computer....it was too much.

TP

by **Brian Ost** » Fri, 24 May 2002 06:48:01

Try re-formating the drive, copy the win98 directory from the win98 cd
and doing the install from the hard drive. Could be that there was a
file copy error when installing from the cd. You might also want to
run a scandisk w/ surface scan on the drive to make sure that the file
was not copied to a bad sector.

Brian Oster

>> A friend of my wife got a business closeout computer. An insurance
>> company here got a completely new computer system so they sold all their
>old
>> systems very cheaply.
>> It's an HP with Phoenix bios and 64 megs of memory with S3 onboard
>video.
>> I have tried to re-install win98 but have come up with an error. the Hard
>> drive is 1.4 gigs btw.
>> After all the files have been copied, and the plug and play devices
>> detected, windows setup restarts and begins the final boot. But the
>startup
>> stops with this error:
>> vmm32.vxd is either no available or won't load.
>> I did load in safe mode and file search found the file right where is
>should
>> be, windows/system so what's the deal? Anyone know why this little
>***
>> is holding up the booting process?
>> (ps...I did a clean format of the c drive as well, still got the same
>> error.)
>> dave henrie

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