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Windows Forum / Windows 98 / Setup / February 2005trying to reload win98 from boot disk
After uninstalling Norton Internet Security, Windows 98SE would not reboot. It gave me the error "Fatal exception 0D occured at 16A7:000014E3. Press any key to continue." Pressing any key causes the computer to hang (black screen). I rebooted using the Win98 boot disk that allows access to a CD-ROM. When I type "setup" to re-install Win98, I get the error message: "Windows setup requires 'largest excecutable program size'to be at least 442,368 bytes to run." I have rebooted and reinstalled before and never encountered this. Microsoft support has no articles for troubleshooting either problem. HELP!! Norm http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B289727 John > After uninstalling Norton Internet Security, Windows 98SE would not reboot. > It gave me the error "Fatal exception 0D occured at 16A7:000014E3. Press any [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > Norm Thanks, John John. > http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B289727 > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > > > Norm You're welcome. John > Thanks, John John. > [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] >>> >>>Norm John John, I tried your suggested solution (from the Microsoft document) and it did not work. I cannot run scandisk from the win98 boot disk. I get an error message to the effect that there is insufficient conventional memory to run scandisk and that I should try to load some drivers into high memory. The only drivers loaded are the CD-ROM drivers from the boot disk. I wouldn't know how to load a driver into high memory anyway. I tried to run setup from the CD-ROM and, after "xcopying" the whole disk to a folder on my hard drive, from the hard drive using the "/is" suffix but I got the same original error message that I referred to in my original posting. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'll have to reread the thread and refresh my memory. In the meantime look at this: How to Increase Conventional Memory for MS-DOS-Based Programs http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;134399 A quick try would be using REM to not load (or unload) the CD-ROM drivers in the Autoexec.bat file. Open the file with edit (edit a:\autoexec.bat) and find the line that has MSCDEX and at the begining of the line add REM . Note that there is a space after REM. It will look something like this when done: REM whatevertext.....\mscdex.exe /d:mscd001 Save the file, reboot the pc and try again. That by itself should free up quite a bit of conventional memory. To boot the pc with the same boot disk and regain CR-ROM support re-edit the file and undo the REM changes after you're done. John > John John, > I tried your suggested solution (from the Microsoft document) and it did not [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > message that I referred to in my original posting. Any help would be greatly > appreciated. > there is insufficient conventional memory to run scandisk This message has nothing with the drivers loaded in memory. And you can't do anything with it -- if not to rebuild the drive in whole. See: "Your Computer Does Not Have Enough Free Memory to Defrag the Drive" http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q229154 (Scandisk is mentioned there, too -- because of the same reason). -- Mikhail Zhilin http://www.aha.ru/~mwz Sorry, no technical support by e-mail. Please reply to the newsgroups only. ====== >John John, >I tried your suggested solution (from the Microsoft document) and it did not [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] >message that I referred to in my original posting. Any help would be greatly >appreciated. Ahah! Yes indeed, and now that I have reread the thread the original problem points to some of the same causes: • The amount of space on the hard disk has been reported incorrectly. • You installed drive overlay software, but you did not follow the correct installation sequence. For example, you may have to press the SHIFT key or use a similar keystroke combination to start your computer when you use a disk. Thanks for picking up on it. The drive overlay software seems to be the constant in the errors. At this juncture rebuilding the drive might be the only viable option. Good catch, thanks again Mikhail. John >>there is insufficient conventional memory to run scandisk > [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] >>message that I referred to in my original posting. Any help would be greatly >>appreciated. |
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