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by zhouweiqin

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Yesterday i was using Microsoft Excel, suddenly screen jump to the message screen, which said:
A fatal exception 0E has occurred at 0028: c004b45E in VXD VFAT (01)+00009486.
The current application will be terminated.
Press any key to terminated.
When I press the Enter Key, it becomes black screen then ?dead?. It frequently does this.

I can?t even install any application softwares such as Symantec Antivirus if I do, during installation, it gives me the same message on the screen the only difference is the code. What is the problem, could the Antivirus software not be compatible with win98? Or is my computer too old. I have a Pentium66 machine and win98 SED operating system.
During times like these how do I solve these problem.
Any suggestions will help. Thanks very much.

Tina

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by turnerc

I did a little snooping around for you, found this first

"A fatal exception 0E has occurred at (address) in VXD (FSD) + (address). The current application will be terminated.
Note: The VXD in question is a File System Driver (FSD) from the listbelow:

CDFS (the path references a CD-ROM drive letter)
NWREDIR (the path references a network drive mapped by the Microsoft Client for NetWare Networks)
UDF (the path references a DVD-ROM drive)
VDEF (the path references an unformatted disk drive)
VFAT (the path references a floppy disk drive, a hard disk, or an FTL-formatted Linear Flash PCMCIA card (Flash File System)
VREDIR (the path references a network drive mapped by the Client for Microsoft Networks)
0028:DEDEDEDE (the path references a network drive mapped by the Novell NetWare Client for Windows 95/98 version 3.1)
Unknown (the path references drives managed by third-party, or custom file system drivers and network redirectors)
"

The first thing i'd try to resolve this error is is run SFC from the Run option.
If this doesn't help too much you can always try uninstalling MS Excel and either reinstalling it, or more likely reinstall Windows 98.

VFAT is part of the FAT system, the basics of your hard disk. Run a thorough scan disk using all options and surface scans.

If you have no luck trying to fix it, the best thing to do in a situation like this is to backup all your important files, and reinstall totally, FDISK and reformat your hard disk as long as scandisk doesn't show any physical errors. If it does, then that's the problem.

Hope this helps.

by bryan_hartman

Last time i got a vfat error my iomega zip drive was going bad.
i unplugged it and that solved my problem.

Its possible it could be another device to causing this fault start swapping until the error goes away.

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