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trinkulus

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I keep getting this message. I'm installing a hardrive on my new computer. It's one I used before and I like it. I had it on my new computer with win98 installed but to fix another problem a person suggested I repartition and reformat. I finally got it reformatted and repartitioned(I think) and now when I boot using my start up disk it runs mscdex and then I get the runtime error 200 message. If I try using my win98 cd and run the setup I get the same message. Any suggestions?
 
It sounds like you're running an old pascal program that wasn't intended for the higher clock speeds of todays cpus

gotta love google for information, you should figure out what program is causing the runtime (and if its even needed, chances are its not)

google search for "runtime" and "200"

Another alternative would be to simply make a new boot disk. 🙂
 
Well I can't imagine I'm using any pascal programs seeing as how the driver was just formatted. The boot disk I was using was for my older gateway computer which was still running at 400 so that should still be above the threshold to give me a runtime error 200 but I never got it before.
 
I'm not exactly sure what would be on that gateway boot disk, but making your own (assuming you have a working installation of 98/ME to make one)

If not there are sites where you can download images.

Have you tried hitting f8 to bring up the boot menu, and then choosing selective start? (answering y until you get the runtime error)
 
Well I did try making my own boot disk just now. I went through with F8 like you said and I got no problems. It was able to create the RAMDrive. But even though I told it to start with cd-rom support I cannot access my cd drive. I have my A, C, and D drives(two hard drives). And then it has E(RAMDrive) and F. F should be the cd drive but now I seem to get the message cdr101: not reading drive F. I've never had this much trouble with a computer before.
 
I've had some cdroms that don't detect properly with the microsoft cdrom drivers. You might try getting a generic dos driver as well, for example I use the acer generic driver (vide-cdd.sys) and has worked for all cdroms i've dealt with. Somewhere I have a floppy image of a win98 boot disk with the generic driver, that I could upload and provide a link if needed.


 
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