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| Thread ID: 22121 | 2002-07-12 05:13:00 | Missing Win 98 Se file | Maurice (906) | Press F1 |
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| 61833 | 2002-07-12 05:13:00 | Krnl386.exe missing on bootup Shell cannot findor load required file KRNL386.exe The file file was not found This result of deleting a few programs and defrag HDD Can boot to Linux Mandrake 8.2 no problem. Would rather not FDISK again Maurice |
Maurice (906) | ||
| 61834 | 2002-07-12 05:27:00 | easy on the posting there dude. i can never remember how to extract a file out of a cab in dos but a dirty way to fix it is to simply do run windows setup and install 'over the top'. this should replace any missing files and leave you data intact. not sure if it will effect the boot loader tho. |
tweak'e (174) | ||
| 61835 | 2002-07-12 05:36:00 | >>this should ... leave you data intact If possible Back up data first. It never hurts to be safe. |
Heather P (163) | ||
| 61836 | 2002-07-12 05:43:00 | Extracting files is easy, finding the right cab is the hard part. If someone can help with the right cab folder all you do is go to Start>Run, type sfc for System File Checker, choose the second option Extract One File... then Start. Now browse to the folder your file resides in. tweak'e, get yourself a Cardfile and fill it with proper notes. ;-) |
Susan B (19) | ||
| 61837 | 2002-07-12 05:56:00 | errr susan.... how do you "go to Start>Run, type sfc for System File Checker" when you cannot run windows ?:| | tweak'e (174) | ||
| 61838 | 2002-07-12 06:12:00 | Ooops, wasn't thinking. Duh! :8} | Susan B (19) | ||
| 61839 | 2002-07-12 06:15:00 | I was wondering that too....just seemed so easy. Must be why its called software ?:| Also complicated by possibly no dos drivers for the CD loaded...oops Never mind Susan, its the weekend (and the end of the School Holidays) so you can be excused this time..... |
godfather (25) | ||
| 61840 | 2002-07-12 06:20:00 | OK then, this is one way. You will have to boot into DOS and use the extract.exe command. Type extract /? to get all the switches. KRNL386.exe is in the mini.cab folder on the install CD extract the file and put it in c:\windows\system There may be a problem, The krnl386.exe on the CD may not be the version you lost. I have this feeling that updates to IE also update krnl386.exe. Any way it would be better to have the original rather than none at all :) |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 61841 | 2002-07-12 07:04:00 | Disregard my post above, it's all wrong. The krnl386.exe from mini.cab is the wrong one and it caused windows not to boot when I tried it. I cant find the proper krnl386.exe either :_| |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 61842 | 2002-07-12 11:49:00 | I just knew there must be an answer somewhere. The reason I couldn't find krnl386.exe was that I was looking on a Win98SE upgrade CD, it isnt there. It IS on a Win98 first edition CD in Win98_41.cab. To find it on a full Win98SE CD will just take a bit of searching, or it may be in the same .cab. So going back again to my first posting, you need a boot disk with CD rom support, and you need to have extract.exe already on your hard drive or just copy it from the Win98 directory on the CD. Boot from the floppy, copy extract.exe from the CD to c:\ To find krnl386.exe, issue this command: extract /A /D D:\win98\win98_22.cab krnl386.exe | more D:\ is your CD drive letter. This will search consecutively through all .cab starting from win98_22.cab When you have found it extract with: extract D:\win98\win98_xx.cab krnl386.exe This will put the file in C:\, copy it to C:\windows\system Hopefully things will then be ok. |
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