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| Thread ID: 54295 | 2005-02-08 22:37:00 | How do I fix the KRNL386.exe error.... | straka01 (310) | Press F1 |
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| 322807 | 2005-02-08 22:37:00 | I have a PC that I loaded win98se onto for a friend and all was going very well. I asked her to bring her scanner, printer, monitor & keyboard so I could make sure all were set up properly with their drivers. After I plugged them in and switched on the OS wouldn't load up and it stopped with a message "Cannot find or load required file KRNL386.exe". I searched high and low but cannot find this file anywhere - in fact I can't find it on other PCs using the same OS. The only way I can load up the OS is in Safe-Mode. Can someone tell me how to fix this problem? Thanks |
straka01 (310) | ||
| 322808 | 2005-02-08 23:33:00 | ms kb article (support.microsoft.com) | gibler (49) | ||
| 322809 | 2005-02-09 20:16:00 | Can you clarify for me what this means (from the Microsoft site...)? Make sure that your Windows directory is on your MS-DOS path? and Make sure that your path statement does not contain more than 128 characters? Where is this path program - WIN.INI, SYSTEM.INI or somewhere else? Do I edit it from MSCONFIG ???? |
straka01 (310) | ||
| 322810 | 2005-02-09 20:33:00 | Someone will correct me if I am wrong but I think you should be looking at the next section, ie "If Windows 95/98 Was Installed/Uninstalled" rather than the first section. The other thing you could also try is reinstalling Windows again. |
FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 322811 | 2005-02-09 22:52:00 | I tried re-installing windows - but it had not effect on the problem. I would rather not format and start installing from fresh if I can find a work-around. Thanks |
straka01 (310) | ||
| 322812 | 2005-02-09 23:10:00 | Can you clarify for me what this means (from the Microsoft site . . . )? Make sure that your Windows directory is on your MS-DOS path? and Make sure that your path statement does not contain more than 128 characters? Where is this path program - WIN . INI, SYSTEM . INI or somewhere else? Do I edit it from MSCONFIG ???? you may need to swot up on DOS commands . The Path statement is in autoexec . bat file, which is a text file located in the root of the C drive, C:\ . It can be viewed and edited with Notepad . Autoexec . bat should contain this path statement as a minimum: PATH=C:\;C:\WINDOWS;C;\WINDOWS\COMMAND The limit on 128 characters then follows as obvious :) Other programs may add to their own bit to the path statement |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 322813 | 2005-02-09 23:22:00 | if you cant load windows you can still edit the autoexec.bat file by using a boot floppy but again dos comand are needed after booting you will get A:\ type in path=c:\windows\command press the enter key type in edit c:\autoexec.bat press the enter key edit is a very basic dos file editor this will allow you to edit autoexec.bat without windows being loaded when it says add windows to your path statement add this to the autoexec.bat path=c:\windows |
beama (111) | ||
| 322814 | 2005-02-10 00:41:00 | I've tried this but I still have the same problem. I can't find win386.exe on the PC at all! There's only win386.swp. Has this file been deleted (I haven't deliberately deleted any system files) or isn't it needed. If it's needed why wouldn't it have reloaded when I re-installed the OS? |
straka01 (310) | ||
| 322815 | 2005-02-10 00:55:00 | On my W98se, KRNL386 is in C windows system. No Win386.exe though - only the swap file. Bye |
Peter H (220) | ||
| 322816 | 2005-02-10 01:17:00 | This PC has this same configuration. KRNL386.exe is in the c:\windows\system folder I even added c:\windows\system to the PATH in autoexec.bat Still the same. |
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