Can't boot to Windows, Vxd or somthing

Parts · January 17th, 2002, 08:12 AM

Help, I can't boot to windows, it says something about windows protection and Vxd error

Parts

Philip1952 · January 17th, 2002, 08:14 AM

What is the error message say exactly.
Can you boot into safe mode?
System spec's would be nice also.

Parts · January 17th, 2002, 08:22 AM

No I can't boot to safe mode and it's an ole athlon 600 and a K7 mobo.

Parts

ChoaticWhisper · January 17th, 2002, 08:24 AM

Something like that happened to me before I cant rember what I had to do, I know it involed reinstalling or something with a boot disk...Not much choices there or help.
Im sure someone will have so real help.
Hope you get it working.

Parts · January 17th, 2002, 08:27 AM

Dang,

ChaoticWhisper

) You're almost saying that I have to format this thing I can't really afford that so much school data. Dang.

ChoaticWhisper · January 17th, 2002, 08:35 AM

Well Lets see if I can really help, What verison of windows do you have? Do you have more than one partition? I dont remember if this works but try booting with a boot disk and try something like going to C:\windows and type win and see if that will work, Although I doubt it.
If you have more partitions use a boot disk and copy things that you need over.
If you have window ME try using a boot disk and do a minmal boot.

Edit:try booting with a boot disk and boot normal with log file and then after it freezes or what ever boot again to the command prompt and look at the C:\bootlog.txt and see where it stops and see if that will give us some more info.

Parts · January 17th, 2002, 08:48 AM

I'll do that, strange tho, the puter is not connected to the net and I don't remember messing with it

Uhh It's on windows 98 SE, no partition.

Thanks Parts

chefde · January 17th, 2002, 09:48 AM

You should be able to go into safe mode, start hitting the F8 key right after the mem check during boot up. You only have a second to do it when the starting win 98 shows.

What exactly is the error message?

Chef

Brainchild · January 17th, 2002, 09:55 AM

Just a thought, does it say it's can't find xxxxx.vxd? If so hit enter, and another one comes up. Hitting enter 5-6 times it will let you into windows. Those are the drivers for networking, and networking isn't setup so windows can't find them. The only way I've found to get rid of that problem is reinstall windows. You can run windows setup, save system configuration, and it will reinstall windows, and leave all you files in place, at least it does for me. But if it does erase something, I didn't say that

chefde · January 17th, 2002, 10:58 AM

I've had some success copying the missing vxd from another machine into the windows\system directory while in safe mode, although I believe some vxd's are system specific.

Chef