Jan,

     From your description of your problems, I would suggest reformatting
your hard drive and starting all over.  Sounds like you have a corrupted
Registry/corrupted files.  If you have never reformatted, let the List know
and we will try to walk you thru it.

Frank Fowlkes



Subject: [PCSOFT] problem installing wind.98


> Many times I made a clean install off wind.98, whenever I thought it was
not running smooth anymore.I work with a bootmanager (Bootit Direkt) and
have 3 partitions with wind 98.1 for myself,1 for my son, and 1 for burning
cd.s..
> This week suddenly 2 partions crasht ( son an cd.burning ) with Explorer
made a fault etc.and i could not get into the system, not even in safe
modus.
> But now; I cannot reinstal wind.98 anymore.Each time I trei different
mesages, like setup made a decodingfault, a damaged setup file (cab), or
Msgsrv32 made a fault, or Regsvr32 made a fault , vnetbios.vxd is missing
etc. etc.
> I treid evrything,took out de bootmanager, changed motherboards, changed
cd-romplayer,took out the sound-card, took out network-card, reparttitioned
an old harddrive, treid to install with a wind.98 c
> d from a friend ( because I thougt mine was damaged ).
> Somethimes I get a install, but then I get messages that there is no
entrance
> in de registry.The strange thing is that my patition with wind.98 still
works.
> I did a lot off tests with Sandra Pro, and with a program from Aopen.
> All the tests are allright.
> Is there somebody who can help me out on this one ?

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