hi newbie here i managed to load winme on pc but when it closes to restart
the logo appears then it freezes error message appears:an exceception oe has
occurred at 0028:c0013c19 in vxd vmm(01)+0005055c in vxd vpicd(01)+00001448.it may be possible to continue normally.
i press a key windows shuts down can SOMONE TELL me whats happening?Bad install or bad hardware are best bets. How did you "manage to install" it? Do we get a clue about the hardware? Is this a real Microsoft CD or what?Thanks for help:ok well its an ibm 300pl i had put away then had use for again it came with a windows cd-rom and win95 on the system no start up disk a recovery disk but it never worked has i found later i upgraded to winme using a copy a friend gave me to enable broadband cable the cable guy installed it at the time i knew nothing not that i know much now he wanted me to get the package ha, later i got a larger hard drive and learned how to install it. using a start up disk made from previous winme install loaded new drive which has i type this i recall that first clich a thin streak shot across the screen just before the system rebooted to had hardware but it did reboot later a virus crashed my system everything was deleted lost registry when tried to boot winme again couldn't so i loaded win95 and then loaded winme from run command in win95 can't remember but it worked then i got a dell and put my old pc away until now so i've tried to load with winme boot disk i downloaded from puter geeks and win95 boot also downloaded my original start disks long misplaced the winme which is COPIED onto cd when i run it displays bad fault in ms-dos extender. the win95 runs setup copies files then at finish when it reboots to add hardware logo appears then my hard drive sounds like a gigercounter close to radioactive material the error message appears {protection error restart}when i try windows shuts down this is the closet i've come.You should start by running the free diagnostics from the appropriate hard drive maker's site. If unsure, use SeaTools from the www.seagate.com You should be able to see the appropriate manufacturer on the drive itself. Those models frequently used Maxtors.

The second thing is to get a real copy of Windows so you are legal and it is complete.

You can get an appropriate boot disk from www.bootdisk.com A Win98SE OEM disk would be FINE from that site.

I am not convinced the hardware is intact at this point. I have a few 300PL's here and have loaded Windows on hundreds with no problem. There is something amiss.thank you , GX1_Man
for this internet site
www.bootdisk.com

Thank you, thank you, and thank you again for a direction i'll give a try. We'll keep the light on. ok gentleman sharing pc with younglings downloaded drive tool and since i had
brought the drive in question to this pc {dell optiplex110}} i decided to switch drives quick and to my surprise when i turned it on win95 booted up and displayed desktop so iassume it not the drive so excited i took drive the back to my ibm and tried it again win95 logo displayed then went into safe mode pushed enter message protection error restart did so new message invalid windows configuration. LEARNING things.