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Solve : VMM32.VXD  - not found?

Answer» <html><body><p>Buenos dias doctor!<br/><br/>Well, well of course it did NOT work. I have the windows 98 CD and my smart computer that is mad at me for deleting things I shouldn't have done, won't run it. All it says is that Vmm32.VXD not found.<br/><br/>Is there something I can type in manually to start running the CD??<br/><br/>Ohhh what have I done? <br/><br/>Thanx doc,<br/><br/>BeaOK.  Is that the Windows XP CD or the Windows 98 CD that you have? <br/><br/>If it is the Windows 98 CD, you may boot from a startup floppy disk, choose the option to enable CD-ROM support, then type <strong>D:</strong> and press ENTER.  Then, put the Windows 98 CD in the CD-ROM drive and type <strong>setup</strong> and press ENTER.<br/><br/>If that does not work, just let one of us know.<br/><br/>Buenos dias!<br/><br/><br/><br/>Hola Doc!<br/>No, nothing happens when I put in the CD. Well, actually yes, it says could not find VMM32.VXD and VMM32.VXD is neccessary to start windows 98 ... it does not read the CD and does not ask me anything about it. It sounds like it wants to run it though! And also, when I start the computer (no dics inside) it shows the Windows 98 front page and then it goes away and that message comes that VMM.32.VXD was not found.<br/><br/>Is there any hope left??? I hope so...<br/><br/>Thankssssssssss,<br/>BeatrizUuups, I forgot to answer that it is a windows 98 CD NOT xp. I also do not have the floppy disc to boot from. I am not sure which one you mean...Beatriz:<br/><br/>OK, not to worry!<br/><br/>There are two things you may try:<br/><br/><strong>A. You may be able to enter the BIOS setup of your computer and change the boot-order setting to boot to the CD drive before the hard drive.  </strong>To do this, look for a message that appears on the monitor with you first start the computer that says something like, "Press F2 to enter setup..."  Once you get into the BIOS setup, do NOT change any setting except the boot order.  Then save the changes by pressing the F10 or some other key and exit the BIOS setup.  Then put the Windows CD in the drive and restart the computer by pressing CTRL, ALT, DEL.<br/><br/><strong>B. You may download a boot disk and use it to start your computer.</strong> Just go to this site:<br/><br/><a href="http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm">http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm</a><br/><br/>Then click on the link to download a Windows Me OEM boot disk and save it to a floppy disk.  Then, put the floppy in your computer and turn it on.  When asked what you want to do, choose the option to start the computer with CD-ROM support.  Then, change to the directory of the CD drive (as i <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/showed-7301706" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about SHOWED">SHOWED</a> you earlier) and type<strong> setup </strong>and press ENTER.  That should do it.<br/><br/>Let one of us know if you need more help.<br/><br/>DocBeatriz:<br/><br/>Here are Microsoft's instructions for installing Windows 98 with a boot disk:<br/><br/>How to Install Windows 98<br/><br/>1. Insert the Windows 98 Startup disk in the floppy disk drive, and then restart your computer. <br/><br/>2. When the Windows 98 Startup menu is displayed, choose the Start computer with CD-ROM support option, and then press ENTER. <br/><br/>3. If CD-ROM support is provided by the generic drivers on the Startup disk, you receive one of the following messages, where X is the drive letter that is assigned to your CD-ROM drive:<br/><br/>Drive X: = Driver MSCD001<br/>Drive X: = Driver OEMCD001 <br/><br/>NOTE: If your CD-ROM drive is not available after you boot from the Windows 98 Startup disk, install the CD-ROM drivers that are included with your CD-ROM drive. For information about how to obtain and install the most current driver for your CD-ROM drive, view the documentation that is included with your device, or contact your hardware manufacturer. <br/><br/>4. Insert the Windows 98 CD-ROM in the CD-ROM drive, type the following command at a command prompt, and then press ENTER<br/><br/>X:\setup<br/><br/>where X is the drive letter that is assigned to your CD-ROM drive.<br/><br/>5. When you receive the following message, press ENTER, and then follow the instructions on the screen to complete the Setup procedure:<br/>Please wait while the Setup initializes. Setup is now going to perform a routine check on your system. To continue press Enter.  <br/><br/>The instructions and other info. are found here:<br/><br/><a href="https://support.microsoft.com/kb/221829/EN-US/">http://support.microsoft.com/kb/221829/EN-US/</a><br/><br/>Regards,<br/>DocDoc,<br/>no, the problem is that I do not have a start up disc. All I have is a windows 98 CD!!! Is this the end of it? My gosh, I can't believe what I have done. Again, I turn on the computer and it tells me that I am missing VMM32.VXD. If I type D: it won't do it (if that is something that makes sense, anyways. I thought if I do that it goes to the CD Rom). I am helpless, I know. I also don't receive an automatic reminder that you have written me back although I clicked it. That's why it takes me longer because I thought you hadn't written back yet. Aghh, <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/yeah-2343023" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about YEAH">YEAH</a> and if I start the computer with the CD in it, it doesn't read it. I am having the feeling that I need that floppy reboot disk I don't have and this is the end of what you can do for me.  :-/ Doc,<br/>sorry I just saw that you had written another email how to get the boot disc. Sorry, about that. I will get that boot disk thing done tomorrow and let you know how that went. <br/>Thanks as always so much!Beatriz:<br/><br/>No problem!<br/><br/>The Windows Me OEM or the Windows 98 SE OEM will both support your CD drive.  You may download either one from bootdisk.com.<br/><br/>Let us know how it goes amigo! <br/><br/>DocDoc, can Beatriz run SFC on a '98 from DOS without a '98 CD? (I have totally forgotten what is possible with SFC on '98 )<br/><br/>Bea, is this an XP upgrade CD or a full version of XP with SP2? What are the hardware specifications like on the PC, processor, RAM and hard drive size?<br/><br/>I just finished this on another forum. maybe it wil be of use to you.<br/><br/>"You should boot directly to the Windows XP CD and to make this easy I use OLDBIOS.EXE <br/>which works for new BIOS's as well.<br/><br/>If you download both of these bootdisk images to a hard drive and make one floppy bootdisk for each of them by double-clicking on them you will have adequate means <br/>of doing what you want to do.<br/><br/><strong><a href="http://xbuck.free.fr/softs/wxpboot.exe">DELPART BOOTDISK</a> &amp; <a href="http://ebcd.pcministry.com/download/oldbios.exe">OLDBIOS BOOTDISK</a></strong><br/><br/>When it is made just put the OLDBIOS bootdisk in the A: drive and the Windows XP CD in the CD-ROM drive and re-boot. You need to press any key to boot to the CD and then Windows XP setup should load. (Make sure that the XP CD has SP2 and that it is really clean. I <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/gently-2093578" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about GENTLY">GENTLY</a> wash the CDs in luke-warm water with two drops of soap solution and gently dry them with a clean linen cloth so that there is less danger of read errors.)<br/><br/>You then choose to install XP and have to press F8 to agree to the EULA. When the next screen appears you will have the chance to delete old partitions and make new ones. You should then format drive partition C: and format any other partitions using XP's Disk Management.<br/><br/>If the XP CD does not have SP2 then use AutoStreamer 1·0 to slipstream the core files from the XP CD together with the updated files from SP2. AutoStreamer will make you an .ISO file from which to burn an XP SP2 CD and you then use this CD and not the original to do the installing. (Chose to burn a CD-ROM(ISO) in your burning program.)(I use NERO for this job.)<br/><br/>I install to a 10240Mb (10 Gb) drive C: and partition the drive in such a way that ALL data can be kept on other partitions to make backing up data easier.<br/><br/>Partitioning also means that it is also easier to make a drive image of the C: drive partition when all of the installing and updating is finished so you can use the drive image CDRs (or data DVDs) to restore the entire system in about 30 minutes should anything go wrong in the future.<br/><br/>Useful programs for XP include ERUNT which makes a backup registry automatically, CCLeaner to remove all junk files after installing, Disk Cleanup to remove old system restore points before imaging, and EmpTemp which will remove old system restore information in .old files.<br/><br/>You should also add the User Profile Hive Cleanup Service from MS which speeds up the shut-down time and makes start-up easier too.<br/><br/>If the old partitions will not delete using the XP CD then use the DELPART bootdisk (wxpboot.exe) to delete them.<br/><br/>To do this you need to boot to the Delpart bootdisk and at the prompt type: A:\&gt;dir , (press enter) to see the list of directories. Then type: A:\&gt;cd , delpart (press enter) to change to the DELPART directory and finally type: A:\&gt;DELPART&gt;delpart , (press enter) , to start the Delpart program. 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(I have totally forgotten what is possible with SFC on '98 )<br/><br/>Bea, is this an XP upgrade CD or a full version of XP with SP2? What are the hardware specifications like on the PC, processor, RAM and hard drive size?<br/><br/>... </blockquote> <br/><br/>Mac:<br/><br/>Yep! i ran System File Checker (SFC) myself on one of my Windows 98 SE systems not too long ago.  It didn't ask me for the CD, that is, not until i prompted it to replace one of the files it found.  So the CD is essential to actually replace missing system files. <br/><br/>Not sure if SFC may be run from the command prompt.  If it can, then it *may* work.  However, i have a strong <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/hunch-7382168" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about HUNCH">HUNCH</a> from Beatriz's earlier posts that she deleted the SYSTEM folder.  That's why i've suggested she reinstall Windows 98 SE.  <br/><br/>About Windows XP, you may have missed the post where she said she was mistaken when she said she has the XP installation CD and that she only has the 98 CD.<br/><br/>Neat trick that OLDBIOS boot disk!  I'm going to check out that link.<br/><br/>Take it easy!<br/>Doc<br/>&lt;--- Thinks, "Man, it's getting hot in this topic!  Did someone turn up the heat?"<br/><br/>  <br/><br/>&lt;--- is wondering how Beatriz is doingMy gosh you guys...thank you all. I am being very busy these days and can't find to fix that stupid computer and I just checked what I dummie have to do next and are you guys kidding me??? I printed it all out and with a bottle of wine I will TRY to follow these steps. I think the computer hates me and does not cooperate. CD forget that, won't take that at all. So I will try these 3 mio floppy discs seems like the only thing that *censored* thing likes. Seems like this case really has gotten hot - love to see all these men trying to help me, haha! You guys don't know how clueless I am and therefore thank you so much. Ha, we have time until September when Uni <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/starts-1224822" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about STARTS">STARTS</a> again, so no time pressure, haha!<br/><br/>Alright amigos,<br/>I'll be back with an update, if I don't throw that thing out of the window, on the weekend.<br/><br/>Yours,<br/>Beatriz Oh and doctore,<br/>you were wondering how I am doing...well the last thingy you told me to do before this got all heated didn't work. I forgot what it is called, that boot disc you recommended me to download. I downloaded it, but nothing happens...<br/><br/>So, I will try all the other things now and get back to you. Thanks doc!</body></html>


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