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Hello again,

I'm having more trouble with my iSeries laptop, machine type 1161-71U. When i turn the computer on, it looks like it's going to boot Windows ME, showing the title screen and so forth. It then stops booting and displays the message, "the following file is missing or corrupted: c:/windows/system/vmm32.vxd." Then it goes to a command prompt, with the message, "type the name of the windows loader." Anything I type just returns that same corrupted file message.

Any ideas? Thank you all.

This is nothing too major and can usally be easily fixed. THe culprit is file corruption. You can easily fix this problem by reinstalling Windows or if you don't want to take the time to reinstall Windows, then make a list of the files that the computer says is missing and find someone with the same OS and copy those files to disk from his/her computer and put them on yours.

You'll need to copy them in the right directory. If you can't boot into Windows in Safe Mode, you'll have to use a bootable floppy disc (Win98 disc will be adequate) and copy them by DOS. Check out where these files are in your friend's computer (directory wise) and you'll know where to copy them to. Easiest way is to load the files you need right onto the bootable floppy. You can erase some of the files on the boot disc without any issue as long as you have a few essential files necessary for booting in order to do this...then use DOS commands...ie:
At the "A" prompt-
Copy vmm32.vxd c:/windows/system/ (notice the spaces)

That's all there is to it. If you don't like just overwriting the original (possibly corrupt file(s)), then you can rename them by switching to that directory and renaming them...ie:
At "A: promt-
CD\ C:/Windows/System
Your computer should show the command prompt as being in this directory after this...so, then type:
REN vmm32.vxd vmm32OLD.vxd (or whatever you want).
Then, go back to your "A" prompt by typeing CD\ A: and continuing with copying the file.