Window98 SE wont start

[Janiebabes]

I had two computers compaq one had a fried HD the other worked fine after i cleaned it up. I took the memory from the system with the fried HD and put it in the working system. When i restarted it goes to windows logo screen then says it is now safe to turn of your system and hangs there. I removed the memory i put in from old system. I am still getting same message at startup. I dont have the restore cd's that came with these systems how can I correct what ever happened? If i go to c prompt i can see all my files are still on the system. any help?

Thank you

[glc]

Can you get it started in safe mode?

[Janiebabes]

I can boot up and go to f8 i click on safe mode but its just a black screen so i reboot and click on got to command prompt i type c:\ dir andi can see all the files

[glc]

At a command prompt, type:

scanreg /restore

and restore a previous registry that worked.

You might also want to run Scandisk from a command prompt.

[Janiebabes]

I did that it doesnt work

[Dan Penny]

Have a look here.

Once you get your system going again, add the following lines to the end of your c:\windows\scanreg.ini file;

Files=30,config.sys,autoexec.bat,io.sys,msdos.sys
Files=11,vmm32.vxd

This adds additional startup files to the normal windows registry backup procedure. It also adds the dreaded VMM32.VXD file, which when lost, means a reinstall "over the top" of the existing windows installation. Normally, a "scanreg/restore" won't cure a system with this file missing. Now it will.