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Fonts folder is preventing boot. Already used TweakUI and nothing. Need suggestions.

W

WoundedWallet

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Ok, I took my whole system apart to clean and add a couple HDs. When I finished I couldn't boot in W98 anymore.

I am able to boot in W98 safe mode and able to boot in W2k normally.

I ran scandisk, defraged, and TweakedUIed. I still can't boot. The bootlog.txt file says that I failed on the fonts folder and the error message says the configmg device failed.

Outside having added two HDs(more power consuption) the only other modification I made was to delete multiple entries on device manager during an initial safe mode boot because one of the PCI cards wasn't all in.

I can't see why the stuff I deleted in device manager would affect the fonts folder, so if anyone has any experience with this error please let me know.

Thanks
WW
 
Hrm.. odd.. only thing I could think of is to rename the Fonts folder in DOS, with boot disk and create an empy folder "Fonts" this may or may not work, I've never seen anything like it.
Hope this helps.

--Mark
 
Do you suppose running Win98 setup as an install-over would help? I've seen corrupted fonts do some pretty strange things in Windows, especially the special system fonts. I think renaming the font folder from DOS first might be a good idea, too -- just in case the setup program fails to overwrite corrupted files. Of course, goobered registry settings might be another matter. Do you have a previous known good registry copy for Win98?

Regards,
Jim
 
did you by any chance put more font in that folder, because I think that windows is limited to 1000 fonts. Just a wild guess.
 
I had that once.
If I remember right, copy the fonts over to a temp directory on C: maybe C:\fonts
and delete teh fonts directory.
Then boot.. it should come up with no fonts. Then you got to manually go in and put in teh fonts by going to the fonts appelet in the control panel

 
er... I feel stupid, but now the bootlog fail is in another area. The fail now is at initiating ndis2sup.vxd. The fonts folder never even showed up in the picture.

Now I'm wondering if it has anything to do with me moving my V3 one slot over, since I have unpluged the extra HDs and the problem is still there.

I'm gonna have to nail this better before I ask for help again.

Thanks guys.
WW
 
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