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I'm receiving a blue screen error that follows:
002 :C004AB2A in VXD VFAT (01) + 00008AB2

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by auman

The VXD refers to a virtual device driver and VFAT refers to the disk file system. Can you boot into safe mode if 95/98/me or VGA mode if NT? - Just a thought

by ryasth

What was the last thing installed prior to this blue screen, (which incidentally is called the "Blue Screen of Death" by most techs)? Usually the VXD errors are drivers for something that Win.com can't recognize or has problems associating.

Ifyou are running Win98 you can restore your system to a previous boot by going to DOS when booting. Hit the F8 screen continually untill you get a menu choice of :

Normal
Safe Mode
Step by Step

etc.

Choose #5 should be "Command Prompt Only" by hitting the #5 key on keyboard. Then hit enter.

Once your computer is ready it will have a DOS screen with a " C:\" prompt.

Type in "scanreg" hit enter.
Hit enter again to start.
Hit TAB once to highlight "View Backups".
Hit enter.
Youshould now see a list of 4 dates. There are actually 5. Using the down arrow on your keyboard select (highlight) the date listed before this "Blue Screen" appeared.
Hit enter.
You should see another screen and in the lower right corner it should read "Backing up system files",, then change to "Restoring systme files".
Then it will say you have restored a good registry.
Reboot by hitting CTRL, ALT, DEL keys all at the same time.

Anything you installed to the system will now not be known by Windows and you should be able to restart into windows.

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