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Ivo Welch <ivo.welch@anderson.ucla.edu> wrote in article
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> Yes, quite sure.  I did the same thing, and surely from a boot floppy. 
So,
> let me repeat it: fips15B fails on my system exactly the same way.  The
> result is a corrupt win/95 system.  Quite nasty.  Anyone know how to fix
> windows?
> 
I had exactly the same experience, same error messages, the works. Win95
would boot in MS-Dos mode, but that was it. Fortunately I backed up the
boot and root sectors as recommended by Gordon Chaffee, and RESTORRB.EXE
got things back to normal. Including, of course, an unpartitioned drive...

> So, warning to everyone else: don't use fips15b unless you are absolutely
> sure that you can stomach a dead windows.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> /ivo welch
> 
> System:  Standard Intel Pentium-II 233MHz Motherboard (SAG computer), 6GB
> EIDE drive.
> 
> 
> Gonzalo A. Diethelm wrote:
> > 
> > bzou@chat.carleton.ca (Bo Zou) writes:
> > 
> > > I downloaded FIPS15B and partitioned my disk.  But when it finishes
it
> > > doesn't return to dos command.  The error is "can't load command"(???
I
> > > can't remember exactly), "memory allocation error, system
halted"(???)
> > > But it did partitioned my disk.  The problem happens when I restart
my
> > > computer and windows can't work.  The error is:
> > >
> > > "while initializing device VFBACKUP: VFBACKUP could not load vfd.vxd.
> > > Please run set up again."
> > 
> > Wait, are you sure you were NOT trying to resize the boot partition
> > with FIPS (I mean, the partition from which you started DOS up)? If
> > you did, there are no guarantees as to what happened...
> > 
> > > Bo
> > 
> > --
> > Gonzalo Diethelm # Windows 95: n. 32-bit extensions and a graphical
shell for
> > gonzo@ing.puc.cl # a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system
originally
> >  =Debian Linux=  # coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit
> >  www.debian.org  # company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition.
> 
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