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NattyNarwhal / vmwmouse

VMware mouse driver for Windows 3.1
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installation renders windows unbootable #21

Open staticanimal opened 2 years ago

staticanimal commented 2 years ago

following installation procedure for this driver on a fresh install of windows 3.11 (winver reports it as windows "3.10E"?) causes windows to throw an "error loading gdi.exe"

attempted in vmware workstation 16.2.1

NattyNarwhal commented 2 years ago

Hmmm, I can't reproduce this with straight 3.1 nor with WfW 3.11. I'll try loading up straight 3.11 and see what happens.

Is this just ephemeral, or does it happen consistently?

staticanimal commented 2 years ago

seems pretty consistent. i've reset the vm i'm attempting this in to a fresh install snapshot a good three times and then attempted to install the driver only for it to break gdi.exe all of those times.

NattyNarwhal commented 2 years ago

I can't reproduce this with 3.11; however, winver reports 3.10 (what specific version are you using?), and I get an "interesting" "error" (continue works fine):

Screenshot from 2021-12-12 16-53-06

Windows 3 1 1 Test-2021-12-12-16-55-11

(Gist of weird disk error)