hermitbry
11-24-01, 10:10 AM
i did a search and found questions on this subject but none just like mine. i am running win 98se. last night i installed win 2k on a seperate partition (partition magic) so i can dual boot. it worked fine and i swiched between os's several times, ended on win98 and it was working fine. this morning i turned on the comp and when it got to "verifying dmi pool data" it said ".|.. " and it hung.
this same thing has happened before for no apparent reason (i don't have to have just installed another os)
i use drive image and have a image of my c drive in pristine condition with all drivers and important programs on it. under normal circumstances i reinstall with it and it works fine but after i get the "dmi .|..) problem the image seems to install fine but when i restart i get the same thing ".|.." . if i reinstall from my win 98 cd before i install my image it will work, but this is a pain. any idea why i get the " dmi .|.." problem and why doesn't my image work without reinstalling win98 first. thanks
this same thing has happened before for no apparent reason (i don't have to have just installed another os)
i use drive image and have a image of my c drive in pristine condition with all drivers and important programs on it. under normal circumstances i reinstall with it and it works fine but after i get the "dmi .|..) problem the image seems to install fine but when i restart i get the same thing ".|.." . if i reinstall from my win 98 cd before i install my image it will work, but this is a pain. any idea why i get the " dmi .|.." problem and why doesn't my image work without reinstalling win98 first. thanks