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graham
June 9th 04, 02:56 AM
tryed to reinstall me. i first disabled virtual memory
and now won't it boot no how no way.(safe mode or
otherwise)
how can i turn it back on or fix the problem?
already tryed to reinstall.

Noel Paton
June 9th 04, 06:41 PM
Graham
try deleting the swapfile
Boot to DOS using the Startup floppy, and type the following commands

DEL C:\WIN386.SWP
DEL C:\WINDOWS\WIN386.SWP
(one may report 'File not found' - don't worry!)

EDIT C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM.INI

In the window that comes up, look for the following lines, and put a
semi-colon (;) in front of them...
PagingDrive=C:
MaxPagingFileSize=0

Now hit Alt, F, S in that order to save, then Alt F X to exit, and reboot to
Windows, removing the floppy.

See if that fixes it - if not, post back with details of how you disabled
the Virtual Memory in the first place!


Now the $64,000 question - why did you do this???
--
Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x)

Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm

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or
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2001/Mar01/Mar27pmvp.asp
"graham" > wrote in message
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> tryed to reinstall me. i first disabled virtual memory
> and now won't it boot no how no way.(safe mode or
> otherwise)
> how can i turn it back on or fix the problem?
> already tryed to reinstall.
>
>