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This is REALLY starting to upset me... I'm attmepting to do a system recovery on a Sony laptop. The recovery seems to go well until it's time to set up Windows ME... I keep getting the following error messages: "WININIT.EXE: Missing/unable to load. Press any key to continue." When I do that, I get : The following file is missing or corrupted: c:\windows\system\vmm32.vxd. Type the name of the Windows loader..."
I've gone through this twice now and get the same results... Anybody got any ideas???
First of all I would look at the CD and make sure it's clean... sound odd but a fingerprint can cause this.
Next are you working with a wiped out hard drive or are you trying to overwrite the OS and leave the data intact?
The Cd's were fine... No prints or scratches...
I tried installing the OS a number of ways. First, I just used the restore cd's and had it overwrite the hard drive. That didn't work. Next, I wiped all the data off the hard drive and tried to re-install the OS. Again, nothing. Next, I swapped out the hard drive, figuring THAT to be bad. Again, nothing... Lastly, using the 'new' hard drive, I tried to install XP to see if that would work. Yet again, nothing...
Not too sure where the problem now lies, but I asked the user what she wants done: scrap the notebook altogether, or shell out roughly $500 to get it fixed. I think I know which direction she's headed...
my next suggestion being you did those other things... Is reset the bios to defaults.
If that fails to help... your more than likely having an issue on the motherboard and at that point like you say it's not worth fixing if it's a laptop.
Yeah, did the motherboard thing too... <sigh>
Glad the user didn't spend too much on the laptop...
Ya I wouldn't spend to much time on it... for what it would cost they could get a low end laptop with more ram and horsepower than what the current laptop has.