[burdick]

Here's the story:

Last month this guy was telling me that his machine was trying to boot from DHCP and wouldn't boot into windows. So I go check it out...it boots fine, I ignore the problem as if it was a 1d10t error. Ok, last week he comes up to me again, so I check it out, the PC was trying to boot from a DHCP server?!?!? It would not boot into windows. I pop in the WIN98 cd...try to get in through dos prompt, here's the error:

"vfat device initialization failed device or resorce required by vfat is not present or not available

System Halted"

So I reinstall Windows...It works for about a week, then, same error. When ever I encounter this VFAT issue, 3 times in the last year "2004" I format/fdisk/reinstall with success....is this the only way?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[burdick]

BTW:

I can boot into safemode


Windows 98 SE
Dell GX1
128mb ram
10 gig HD (maxtron)

These are referbished machines which we buy cheap off a leasing company, thanks again.

 

[burdick]

Never mind:

http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...t=1 Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 139063

So i tried my luck with the google search button, turns out I had to put "DEVICE=C:\Windows\Ifshlp.sys " in my config.sys file...who knew?!?

Why would this happen, the config.sys file was blank, almost like someone deleted everything in there...IDK, thanks for all your help.

~ed