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by pc

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Can somebady please explain to me why if a formatted and partion my drive when im going to start the windows 98 setup it starts only the begining and then it says somthyng like ERROR USER.EXE i want to know whats going on thank you

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by dmiles

This occurs if the Ddeml.dll file is missing or corrupt
To fix,Start system with Windows startup disk
Choose start windows with CD-ROM support,from startup menu,press Enter
Type the following command
Extract drive:\win98\win98_31.cab
ddeml.dll/l c:\windows\system
drive should be the letter of cd-rom
hope this helps

by maxwell edison

This behavior can occur if the Ddeml.dll file is missing or corrupted.

To resolve this issue:

Start your computer with the Windows Startup disk.

Choose Start Windows 98 with CD-ROM Support from the Startup menu, and then press ENTER.Type the following command, and then press ENTER
extract drive :\win98\win98_ xx .cab ddeml.dll /l c:\windows\system

where drive is the CD-ROM drive containing your Windows 98 CD-ROM, and xx is 28 if you are running Windows 98 Second Edition or31 if you are running Windows 98.

Remove the Startup disk, and then restart the computer.

Good luck,

Maxwell

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