Siljer

An update: I replaced the System.dat file with the System.1st file, which for some reason worked better than any of the backups I had, and after spending some time reinstalling drivers, it seems to work fine now. There are still some minor problems, however: Before windows loads, it says the system.ini refers to some missing vxd files: vnetsup.vxd uredir.vxd dfs.vxd vnetbios.vxd I don't know where they could have gone (if they were there to begin with). I checked the system.ini and it doesn't refer to them. I'm refraining from extracting them off the Win98 cd until I figure out what's going on.

The C: isn't removable, but if I did remove it I have a feeling Win98 wouldn't load because it might depend on a few things in the root C:\ directory. For one, it prints the bootlog.txt there. The autoexec.bat and other startup files (also in C:\) don't seem to contain anything (0kb). If this doesn't seem fixable, is there any way to reinstall Win98 without having to reinstall WinXP overtop?

I know the title sounds a bit odd, but I assure you I installed XP's SP2 in Windows XP on my C: partition only a few days ago. Since then when I try to boot up on the Win98 D: partition I get some errors right before any icons start showing up on the desktop. After that everything freezes, except I can still access the task manager and reboot. The first error is a white message box saying explorer.exe caused an error and I must reinstall Win98. The second error is a normal gray box saying uxtheme.dll is linked to a missing export in ntdll.dll RtlInitializeCriticalSection. That’s when it freezes. Restoring the registry to an earlier date in the command prompt doesn’t seem to fix it, and it appears nothing in D:\Windows has been changed or affected since the date of installing SP2. My only guess is that Win98 has a few files on C: that might have been affected. I thought maybe Win98 was missing uxtheme.dll since there is none in the D:\Windows\System folder. I can’t find this file in any of the cab files on the Win98 cd either so I’m guessing Win98 isn’t even supposed to be using this file. So I tried opening Win98’s ntdll.dll in notepad to see if I could find this missing Initialize "export". It’s not even in there, though it’s definitely in WinXP’s ntdll.dll. This is pretty confusing. Is there any way to fix it without formatting, because that would mean I would have to format everything including WinXP?