cannot get into windows or safe mode...

on ibm thinkpad laptop 380 ... and occasionally get: exception oe
0028:c001539a in vxd--- . it has the original windows 98 with fat16.

i recently installed a backpack cd-rw and canon bjc-2100 and then this
started. it shows the windows 98 screen and then goes to the "windows
did not shut down properly" and you must boot into safe mode.

i tried ultimate boot disk but it will not recognize it. i also tried
to install win98se but did not have enough disk space.

i really do not want to have to lose everything as I have tax returns
to finish before April 15th! All my data
is on this computer and I have no way to save or transfer it to other
media.

any ideas?

thank you in adavance,
john

ps. i also ran ibm's tests and everything showed okay.

also tried changing booting order but that did nothing.

is there anyway i can transfer the data onto another computer via usb
cable or?

i really need the tax data and have no idea of how to access or
retrieve it to use.

wrote:
on ibm thinkpad laptop 380 ... and occasionally get: exception oe
0028:c001539a in vxd--- . it has the original windows 98 with fat16.

i recently installed a backpack cd-rw and canon bjc-2100 and then this
started. it shows the windows 98 screen and then goes to the "windows
did not shut down properly" and you must boot into safe mode.

i tried ultimate boot disk but it will not recognize it. i also tried
to install win98se but did not have enough disk space.

i really do not want to have to lose everything as I have tax returns
to finish before April 15th! All my data
is on this computer and I have no way to save or transfer it to other
media.

any ideas?

thank you in adavance,
john

ps. i also ran ibm's tests and everything showed okay.

also tried changing booting order but that did nothing.

is there anyway i can transfer the data onto another computer via usb
cable or?

i really need the tax data and have no idea of how to access or
retrieve it to use.

It's unclear from your description: Can you boot into "safe mode"? (You
don't need a book disk/disc to do that.)

no i only get to the prompts and when i press "safe mode" it starts
over and comes to the same error and to "start in safe mode".

thank you,
john

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no i only get to the prompts and when i press "safe mode" it starts
over and comes to the same error and to "start in safe mode".

How did you boot the Win98se installer?

i think i looked on the cd and used setup.exe.

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i think i looked on the cd and used setup.exe.

I would take another stab at trying to build a boot disk. You can start
he

http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm

If you can boot with a disk that will allow you to see the entirety of
your C: drive, that would be a good start.

How much data do you need to recover? Would it be too much to shuttle
out on floppy disks?

On 5 Apr 2005 14:05:20 -0700 If I have seen farther it is because I
have stood on the shoulder of giants wrote :

on ibm thinkpad laptop 380 ... and occasionally get: exception oe
0028:c001539a in vxd--- . it has the original windows 98 with fat16.

i recently installed a backpack cd-rw and canon bjc-2100 and then this
started. it shows the windows 98 screen and then goes to the "windows
did not shut down properly" and you must boot into safe mode.

i tried ultimate boot disk but it will not recognize it. i also tried
to install win98se but did not have enough disk space.

i really do not want to have to lose everything as I have tax returns
to finish before April 15th! All my data
is on this computer and I have no way to save or transfer it to other
media.

any ideas?

thank you in adavance,
john

ps. i also ran ibm's tests and everything showed okay.

also tried changing booting order but that did nothing.

is there anyway i can transfer the data onto another computer via usb
cable or?

i really need the tax data and have no idea of how to access or
retrieve it to use.

F8 bootup/Command prompt only and type
scanreg/restore and choose an older .cab file backup.You may get
lucky.
HTH



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tried restore older cab files but too many recent ones.

dissconnected all peripherals. no safe mode yet!

too many files to copy to floppies.

really think it is something easy but don't know what to do to get into
winows.

bootdisk had no tools that i know how to use.

thank you,
john

wrote:
tried restore older cab files but too many recent ones.

dissconnected all peripherals. no safe mode yet!

too many files to copy to floppies.

really think it is something easy but don't know what to do to get into
winows.

bootdisk had no tools that i know how to use.

thank you,
john



Are you getting any messages on the boot screen like a corrupt DLL? If
you can't bring up the SAFE MODE by hitting F8 then the system is
probably screwed. Been awhile since running Win9X, but you may have to
do a format C: and re-install windows.

On 5 Apr 2005 19:19:06 -0700 If I have seen farther it is because I
have stood on the shoulder of giants wrote :

tried restore older cab files but too many recent ones.

dissconnected all peripherals. no safe mode yet!

too many files to copy to floppies.

really think it is something easy but don't know what to do to get into
winows.

bootdisk had no tools that i know how to use.

thank you,
john

Here's what I would do.
Get a boot floppy with Cdrom disk support,
http://www.bootdisk.com
or on another system burn this bootable Cdrom ISO which can be used as
an,"A" prompt floppy,
http://www.geocities.com/sheppola/bootd.zip
Readme included e.g set boot order in the BIOS to Cdrom disk 1st.
Then copy the Win98 folder off your Window's CD to the hard drive
using dos.Then re-run setup.exe as per,
http://www.geocities.com/sheppola/repair.html

This should repair windows enough for you to get going etc.
HTH



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