Having just re-installed Win 95 on my laptop, i now get 'missing/damaged vwin32.vxd message, and windows refuses to boot. I thought I would re-install again, but when attempting to access the cdrom to install through dos, i get 'Invalid drive specification!!) Win 95 will not boot in safe mode either, the nearest i can get is command prompt. Re-installing the cd-rom driver via floppy is not behaving either.....HELP!!!

Lost .dll and .vxd files If you know what program it came from reinstall that program. IF you have Win 98, go to Start> Programs> Accessories> System tools> System Information> click tools, then System File checker. Click Extract one file from installation disk. Type in the file's name, then click start. If Windows has it, Win should find and replace it. If you have Win95, see if you can find it on the Win 95 CDROM with CAB Extractor, available from ZDNet’s Hotfiles. If your computer works without any problems you can just remove references to that file in the Registry and System.ini file. To do that select Start> Run, type in System.ini and click OK. Now find all references to "file name".vxd or .dll and remove them. Save changes and close Notepad. Now select Start> Run, type in Regedit and click OK. Find any references to the file, go Edit menu> find> type its name and remove them (To find 1st occurrence use Ctrl+F combination and to find next occurrences use F3 key.) Close Registry Editor and reboot windows.

I have had this same probelm. When you re installed windows 95 was it the same disc as the first time. I only say this as i had to re install due to corruption and used a friends 95 disc that was an earlier version (A) not (c), and i had about 3 of these errors, reload 95 and Cd drivers. Best of Luck

I am having the same problem. I reinstalled from a friends windows 95 disk and now all the .vxd files are screwed. I can't start windows at all. The files are still in the directory but the computer doesn't recognize them. I am running an IBM aptiva and IBM says that reinstalling windows messes up there virtual drivers. Does anyone know how I can get my machine back to the way it was? Bradford

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