OT win98 help

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 bugger 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

Try adding it to your autoexec.bat. path=c:\windows\system "Dave Henrie" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:D10G8.67594$[email hidden]... > A friend of my wife got a business closeout computer. An insurance > company here got a completely new computer system so they sold all theirold > systems very cheaply. > It's an HP with Phoenix bios and 64 megs of memory with S3 onboardvideo. > 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 thestartup > 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 isshould > be, windows/system so what's the deal? Anyone know why this littlebugger > 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 > >

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. "Dave Henrie" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:D10G8.67594$[email hidden]... > 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 bugger > 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 > > >

Dave... I think you used a Win98 upgrade cd....not a full install cd. If she paid more than $25 for the computer....it was too much. TP "Dave Henrie" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:D10G8.67594$[email hidden]... > A friend of my wife got a business closeout computer. An insurance > company here got a completely new computer system so they sold all theirold > systems very cheaply. > It's an HP with Phoenix bios and 64 megs of memory with S3 onboardvideo. > 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 thestartup > 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 isshould > be, windows/system so what's the deal? Anyone know why this littlebugger > 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 > >

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

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> >"Dave Henrie" <[email hidden]> wrote in message >news:D10G8.67594$[email hidden]... >> 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 >bugger >> 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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