I have posted this to several Win98 newsgroups, because I am not sure which
one is the most appropriate.

I have an older computer on which Win98 is running.  This system basically
crashed after an attempt to re-install a printer that was giving me a
problem.   I have tried re-installing Win98 from the CD that came with my
IBM computer, but I get a message saying that I already have an upgraded
version of Win98 on my computer, and it will not re-install.  Presumably,
this has something to do with my having installed the service packs for
Win98.  I have run scandisk successfully.  However, when I boot into Windows
safe mode, I get the "program has performed an illegal operation and will be
shut down" error message with the following details:

EXP caused an invalid page fault in

Module EXPLORER.EXE at 0177:00401f31

Registers:

EAX=00000000   CS=0177   EIP=00401f31   EFLGS=00010246

EBX=00000001   SS=017f   ESP=0080ffic   EBP=0080ff24

ECX=c156a1c0   DS=017f   ESI=00000000   FS=27ef

EDX=0080ff2c   ES=017f   EDI=00000000   GS=0000

Bytes at CS:EIP:

86   08   50   ff   11   8b   45   08   50   8b   08   ff   51   08   8b
45

I have tried to create a FAT32 EBD by running FAT32EBD from the Windows 98
CD.  However, when I get to the stage of  "Insert diskette into A drive -
Warning: all info on diskette will be erased. Press ' Y 'to continue or any
other key to exit. "  I enter ' Y ' and then I get into a loop where the
program just keeps asking if I want to continue.

I do not want to upgrade this computer to any higher Windows version right
now for a lot of complicated reasons.  Reformatting is not an option,
because I have some very valuable data on this computer.  Of course, I have
backups, but reconstructing the database would be a huge effort.  Does
anyone have suggestions as to what I might do?

Thank you.

        Terri