Windows 98 help

2 questions for you guys. It's been so long since I have messed with 98, I am unsure. I have a friend who got the error:

msvcrt.dll is linked to ntdll.dll: you must reinstall windows 98

I am walking him thru this over the phone (and upgrading to xp isnt an option due to applications he has)

He cant get to safe mode but can get to c: prompt (I was going to try SFC but thats not working from cmd prompt)

my question is can he reinstall 98 without losing data files? I know you wont with xp. you just have to reinstall applications. his drive isnt partitioned out and he has everything on there (with no backups

If it were xp i would feel confident telling him that reinstalling xp he wouldnt lose data but 98 I just cant remember that far back

Thanks guys and hope everyone has a good Turkey Day

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theseman

You can do an in-place install of Win98 that is similar to a repair install of XP. Re-writes Windows files but you should not lose app's or data.

Someone *cough*older*cough* could provide you with more info

-Travis

JDMurray

The MSVCRT.dll file for the wrong OS (probably WinNT 4 or Win2K) has been installed on the Win98 computer. Reboot the Win98 system to DOS and copy the MSVCRT.dll file from the Win98 setup CD over every MSVCRT.dll on the hard drive. That will fix the problem.

theseman wrote:

Someone *cough*older*cough* could provide you with more info

Oh please...

Lee H

or you could explain that windows 98 is so old and that a new machine would be nice

Virtual PC could be the answer to the win 98 app that is needed on the machine

Lee H

Breadfan

Thanks guys.

Yes, I have tried and tried to get him to upgrade, but he uses Autocad and his copies only works for 98 because the newer versions are apparently a lot of $$$

I believe he owes me some beer for this.....

Thanks again

sprkymrk

I think I used to fix a lot of W98 boot errors by booting to a command prompt only (F8 or Shift or something) and type:

scanreg /restore

You should be prompted to select one of 5 registry backups, each created on a restart on seperate days.

(Yes, JD and me are old enough to remember this).