Some time ago I got a message saying vmm32.vxd was missing or corrupted. So I grabbed my WinME disk and ran setup. It ran a checkup with scandisk and drives C and D were fine, but when it scanned drive E (a partition in D, my second hard drive) at 64% or so, bad sectors started popping up. I left it to run overnight, and it's still stuck at 64%. Setup INSISTS on fixing everything before it can let me reinstall ME. Is there a way around this? I'm perfectly aware that E is going to die soon. :(

crossmirage, "I'm perfectly aware that E is going to die soon. :(" Hmm, auh D:\ If you're are aware of that... then why don't you just open up the computer ((powered down and unpluged first)), then remove the Data and the power cables from the second hard drive and then try to install. Could even add it back in after the install is done ((powered down and all that...)), if you want to. But, but you say it's on it's last leg and you know this, so why take a chance of lo... ;-) never mind that whoops Is there data on this second hard drive you wish to keep? Yes - No? If yes, then I would do that and then hook it back up and get your things backed up pronto, if you haven't all ready. After that you could do things to maybe have it not give you any more problems for ten years, or it could be ten seconds. :-) But hey, isn't it that way with even new things ;-) Don't know if that was of any help, I haven't been around these parts for so long I wanted to see if I could even log back in :-) Good Luck, CrazyOne

crossmirage, Now only if you want to do the install with out the Scandisk... Could try this at the prompt; setup /is Good Luck, CrazyOne forgive me, it's been a while, don't know what is known by who, or what everyone has and is using

http://www.killdisk.com wipe the drive and see if you can then format/partition...

Or just replace vmm32.vxd. Too simple? BTW, E is not a partion in D. Nor vice-versa. ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

Replace it from where? In Win9x (and WinME is pretty much 98TE) that file is: a monolithic driver file made up of a number of various *.vxd files... the actual *.vxd files it contains is determined for each system on an individual basis during the original Win9X installation ... so using the one on the CD will not help I'm not one of those who think Bill Gates is the devil. I simply suspect that if Microsoft ever met up with the devil, it wouldn't need an interpreter.

jboy, I have a question for you, if you wouldn't mind. If you/we were to modify in the "Scanreg.ini" file, by adding; Files=11,vmm32.vxd ...to the end. Would or wouldn't it then be backed up and also restored with a registry backup? Just curious, is all...;-) Thanks, CrazyOne