- Jun 18, 2000
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What is going On?!! I have installed windows 98 3 times (from a fresh re-format) because my computer will not start up. It says "VMM32.VXD is required to run windows. If this file is not in your PATH you may need to reinstall windows." I checked my C:\windows\system folders and vmm32 doesnt even exist!I know it existed when I installed win98 and now I can't find it when I look for it from my DOS prompt. I had a flawless OS (Well no problems anyway) before I shutdown and now I cant restart? Running scandisk all three times after this occured showed a damaged C:\windows\system directory. What is damaging the said directory? The first two times this happened I had loaded several different programs and restarted. The last time this happened I had both programs loaded working fine for several weeks and then I went to start up my Puter and WHAM.......it happened again. The only good thing about this is that I now can reload windows 98 and support for all hardware in under 2.5 hours(including network configurations). I was thinking something is writing to the system directory in fat16 and I am running a fat32 or does win98 handle writing to the HD. I have autoexec.bat and config.sys in my root directory from dos 6.22 (I think). I was told to format my HD with the /s switch. I was thinking this may be the cause. Any Ideas?
Signed-Hotpepperz (sitting at dos prompt)
Signed-Hotpepperz (sitting at dos prompt)