ME won't boot

While my PC was booting, there was a brief power cut. Ever since it says there was an error loading a couple of vxd files during boot and I need to restart. It will however boot without problems as long as the windows disc is in the drive.

I have tried reinstalling windows over the top but that didn't have any effect. Any suggestions, preferably without formatting etc as it is a family PC with a lot of things on it and I'm not there half the time to do anything major? I can't remember the exact 2 files, but I can find out in a week or so when I go home.

Not sure if ME has SFC... so rarely tinker with it but try that.

Also try booting from a start up diskette

Fdisk /mbr

Sys c:

Neither will affect your data


Then turn off system restore in safemode and reload over the top again.

Hard to call it without knowing which vxd's - but the above is pretty much a cure all :D

I'll give it a go. Excuse my ignorance, but what is SFC and what does /mbr do in fdisk before I try it?

Fdisk /mbr rebuilds the master boot record... so that ME finds a boot sector

Sys c: boots a put record on to allow the disk to boot.

SFC is System File Checker and will scan and replace any files that it deams corrupt... but you dont want the system restore files because as you have seen, they are not quite right, so turn that off before using SFC.

I think SFC ended w/ 98 SE , at least I've never been able to find it in ME. I think MS decided that System Restore would replace it. If it is there I would appreciate someone telling me how to find it , it was a handy tool.

Try start, run, sfc /scannow

It does appear in XP.

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Originally posted by NooNoo
Try start, run, sfc /scannow

It does appear in XP.

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"windows cannot find sfc" this is the message I got on my ME.

Yeah..MS decided to try with WinME just using "protected" system files instead of the sfc..you can see how well it worked by the fact that it's back with WinXP

Which vxd files?

the two VxDs mentioned are SCSIPORT and VWIN32. the complete error message reads:

An exception OE has occurred at 0028:C1AD0D49 in VxD SCSIPORT (1) + 00000879. This was called from 0028:C1C3308C in VxD ---.

An error has occured
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File name: VWIN32 (1) + 000015E6
Error: OE: 0028:C0030D12


hope this helps. i'm gonna try NooNoo's suggestion tomorrow afternoon and see if it helps although i will check here first.

Is there a scanner or nero on this machine?

Other thought, the power outtage may have reset the bios to defaults and turned off acpi and/or apm and/or pnp os.

yeah there's a canon USB powered scanner attached and i have nero 5.5 installed too. will have a go with the bios things and start the other things in a hour or so.

i have tried what was suggested and none of it worked. unless there are any other suggestions, i will probably make time to do a format and reinstall over my uni holidays at easter.

cheers, ric

Uninstall Nero, uninstall the scanner and remove the connection from the computer. Reload ME over the top.