Chuck,

The answer could very well be at support at microsoft. Go to this url
and search for that error message.
http://search.support.microsoft.com/kb/c.asp?fr=0&sa=gn&lng=eng
Good luck and if you can't make this url to work, cut it back to
http://support.microsoft.com/

Lee Ross

Chuck Finnigan wrote:
>
> on boot up, the system is halting at a blue sceen with the following
> message:
> -----------
> VFAT Device Initialization Failed
>
> A device or resource required by VFAT isnot present or is unavialable.  VFAT
> cannot continue loading.
>
> System halted.
> --------------
>
> I've reinstalled windows once.  What else should I do? try?
>
> chuck finnigan
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