Darude1234 Posted October 29, 2006 Share Posted October 29, 2006 (edited) Hello,With my multiboot DVD, I get a very frustating error after the first restart of the win98 install.It says: (translated, don't know exactly what it would say in the english version of win98)Error writing to disk, Cannot write to floppy in station C:Data or files are possibly lostPress any key to continueWhen I press a key it says:During the initialization of device SHELL:Cannot find or load the required file KRNL386.EXEGeneral error reading station CAbort, Again, Fail?Do you know why I get this error and how do I solve it?I already tried to add the win98 files from another cd, but that won't help. Edited October 30, 2006 by Darude1234 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kof94 Posted October 30, 2006 Share Posted October 30, 2006 If your using VMware Workstation then thats your problem. It's a common fault with it, apparently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darude1234 Posted October 30, 2006 Author Share Posted October 30, 2006 Yes, i'm using VMWare, but it's weird that it had worked.But I will check what it will do when i'm installing it on a real pc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xpman Posted July 6, 2010 Share Posted July 6, 2010 I never had any troubles with my my Windows 98SE, but checking on it now I find I have the same problem. More precisely, I get the blue screen after the second reboot, right before the first logon (after the first reboot, there just is a short PnP detection phase).I also found the problem described here, but no solution besides "blaming" VMWareposting 1posting 2Unfortunately, I had made several changes since I lasked checked in Win98SE:went from 32 bit to 64 bit hardware, although I kept my XP x86 in one caseupgraded to VMWare server 1.0.10 and 2.0.2, respectivelyreplaced Nero by mkisofs to create my ISO filesI now made two setups to compare:1. ISO from my Win 98SE OEM CD2. ISO made with mkisofs using the same files as in 1, using cdshell to boot my floppy imageIn both cases I use the same floppy image with MSBATCH.inf on it.1. works perfectly on VMWare2. gets me the blue screen using VMWare, but it works using VirtualPCMy ISO file is smaller than 800MB, so I guess it's not a file order problem. To be sure, I even copied the files onto the HDD and started setup from there. I don't know how more equal 1. and 2. could get than this. Still, 2 does not work. Of course I would prefer being able to stick with VMWare for all testing; it had so far not let me down in any way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Create an account or sign in to comment
You need to be a member in order to leave a comment
Create an account
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!
Register a new accountSign in
Already have an account? Sign in here.
Sign In Now