kwhwilliamson
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Win95/setup
I had win95 loaded, and was installing an on-line banking program from a CD,(my bank) on the banks profile page I hit the wrong key and the program launched without all of my info completed. I de-installed the banks info and in the process created this error message c:\windows\command\mscdex.
Can you boot to a command prompt only or in safe mode (hit F8 when your PC starts to boot). If you can, edit the autoexec.bat file and rem or remove the line referencing the file MSCDEX.EXE. This is a real mode driver for the CD ROM. Windows 95 does not normally need it for the CDROM to work. If it does for some reason, you will need to reinstall the real mode CDROM drivers anyway. Let us know if this works.
In case you're not sure, you can edit the autoexec.bat file by typing "edit autoexec.bat" at a command prompt. Look for the line with MSCDEX.EXE in it and type "REM" at the beginning of the line. Hit Alt-F, X, Y (File, eXit, Yes to save changes).
do you have a 3.5 bootup disk that gives you access to your cd-rom?
delete and replace vmm32.vxd
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