when I tried to reboot my Windows ME laptop this morning, it fails and
gives me a mesage that "a device file specified in system.ini is
damaged".
further it says "may need to run the windows Setup program again"
finally it announces a file "VPOWERD" (presumably the bad file but I
am unsure - see below.)
and then it hangs.
when I examine my SySTEM.INI I can't find VPOWERD referenced anywhere
so I am not sure that this is the problem file or if it is where it is
being referenced.
Nor can I find where VPOWERD is located (it's not under c:\WINDOWS nor
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM) or should be located on my system.
I do not want to reinstall Windows ME from my OEM CDs as the only
choice it gives is to overwrite the entire C: partition - which would
require reinstalling all my applications.
On a W98 machine I see that VPOWERD.VXD is located under
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM and, thinking wishfully that W98 and WME are close
cousins, I have tried taking a copy of that file to the same location
on my ME machine. No change and no improvement.
I have tried to create an ME EBD to try to run Scanreg but it tells me
that HIMEM is.... what is not enabled or whatever and to check that
HIMEM.SYS is on the booit disk - which it is.
Can anyone suggest a way that I can a) figure out what file or files
are bad b) how I can restire them (maybe from the CDs cabs?) without
having to do a complete reinstall of Wme.
many thanks for any suggestions.
Peter Stock