See the Setup. In some cases, increasing the size of the Windows 95 Swap File can solve problems when running Setup. If you bypass the Startup Disk creation screen by pressing Next, create the disk as soon as you can after your update.
Click the Startup Disk tab, then click Create Disk. The procedure is easy: Restart the computer. Hold down the [Ctrl] key until you see the Windows 98 Startup menu.
Select Command Prompt Only. Insert a blank, formatted floppy disk into drive A. Virus-proof the blank disk If you use disks less often, you may forget some important considerations. First, before creating the Startup Disk, scan it for viruses.
Second, after creating the disk, write-protect it. Should your problem be a computer virus, setting the write-protect tab will keep the disk from becoming infected. Windows protection error messages A protection error will occur when the operating system has trouble loading or unloading a virtual device driver VxD. Instead, you need to either reformat the hard disk or work on fixing the corruption. I recently wrote an article for TechProGuild on creating a Windows 98 emergency repair disk that contains more utilities you can use to fix the problems at hand.
The disk described in that article also provides you with access to your CD-ROM drive from the command prompt. Safe Mode If your system is suffering from a Windows Protection Error or a General Protection Fault, the next step of the repair process is to attempt to boot the machine into Safe Mode. You can do so by repeatedly pressing the F8 key during the earliest phases of the Windows 98 boot process. Eventually, you should see a boot menu, and Safe Mode will be one of the choices.
Windows will begin loading normally and then stop abruptly, displaying the Windows Protection Error message. Normally, this error is caused by either a PCI device conflict a bad device driver. A virus corrupting a critical Windows system file can also cause the error. The first thing that I recommend doing to fix the problem is to scan for viruses. I recommend using ViRobot Expert from Hauri.
This antivirus program will not only run in Safe Mode, but it can also repair many of the most destructive viruses. Most of the other antivirus programs on the market simply quarantine infected files rather than trying to repair the damage. According to my sources, the program will be available in the United States as early as February This means that you have to figure out which driver or drivers is causing the problem.
This tends to be a long and tedious process. This seems to have started when I tried to reinstall the TB Montego drivers. First tried to install them from OEM TB disks, then I downloaded them from Dell, installed, uninstalled, reinstalled with various degrees of success.
Installed, uninstalled WinAmp 8. Is this more than an inconvenience? Can I you! Windows 98 SE build 4. I followed your instructions exactly, but neither Win98 nor Win98SE disks showed "dfs.
I did find this on my C drive:. I was finally able to get the compressed. Browse Community. Windows General.
VXD error message on startup. SU A file or folder called Desktop exists on your computer. Rename or move your current Desktop folder, and then run Setup again. SU Setup cannot open a required file, possibly because the file is missing or damaged, or because your computer does not have enough memory. If you have already created a Startup Disk , quit Setup, shut down your computer, insert the Startup Disk, and then restart the computer.
SU99xxxx SU99 is a prefix that is added to all errors that Setup does not have a specific error message for.
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