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tom parker <tparker@salsgiver.com> wrote in message
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> Running win 95 with fat 16.  Have 12 gig hard drive divided
> into 6 two gig partitions C through H.  (I being my cdrom drive.)

I think its best to move to Win98 or Win95 with FAT32 so you
can have just one partition on that drive, for just the reason
thats bitten you. Now might well be a good time to do that.

> Well here is what happened.

> Had adobe Pagemaker V.65 and Photo Shop loaded
> on C drive.  Well it was getting pretty full so I decided
> to move it to a drive that was empty.  This being f drive.

And I dont do that anymore, for just the reason you have seen.
Basically that sort of install is inevitably much less thoroughly
debugged because far less do it that way, so its more likely to bite.

> The first thing I did was delete it out of C drive.  Did this through
> add remove programs in control panel.  While doing this it said there
> were some shared files do i want to delete them?  I said no to all.

Thats the correct thing to do.

> Next step, load Adobe pagemaker V.65 and Photo shop into F
> drive. Went through the process of installation and when it ask which
> directory to put it in i chose (F).  After all the files and so on and so
> forth were installed it ask about quick time.  This is probably used by
> adobe or something.  Well anyway it ask if I wanted to delete the existing
> version and install this one I said yes.  so it installed Quick time.

And this is when the blemish in the install bit you.

> Next it ask if I wanted to restart the computer I said yes.

> Well I restarted and this is the screen I got.  A fatal exception
> OD has occured at IF77:00000032.  The current application
> will be terminated.  Windows will not start.  I can only go into
> windows through the safe mode.  I have a start up disk I made
> in add remove programs but there is no cdrom driver on it.

Thats the other major hassle with Win95 thats been fixed with Win98.

> So I can't reinstall windows from cd.

The best approach in that situation is to get a Win98 startup floppy
from somewhere and use it just so you can see the cdrom drive.
Still reinstall Win95, just using the Win98 floppy to see the drive.

I can email one to you if you want.

> but then again maybe this isn't the route to take.

Yeah, I'd personally take the opportunity to move to Win98 and
clean the entire mess up that way with a single partition on the drive.

You can backup what you care about from safe mode before doing that.

> Maybe it is something with the shared files or the quick time.

Yeap. You may find that you can use the step by step
mode thats in the same menu you select safe mode from
to see whats falling flat on its face and just get rid of that.

You could try uninstalling quicktime too, that might be enough.

> Remeber I said don't delete the shared files and I did say
> delete the exsisting version of quick time is it shared or what?

Most likely just a bug in the replacement of quicktime in that particular config.

> I know i should have left everything  in C drive and left well enough alone.

Yeah, and I'd move to a 12GB C drive now if it was me.