Comments on The EXPTA {blog}: NTVDM encountered a hard error

Thank you for this! I was at a dead end trying to ...

2011-11-03T07:22:50.563-07:00

Thank you for this! I was at a dead end trying to get VB 6 installed on some new servers. This fixed it. It is strange that this doesn't affect the Windows XP boxes. Oh well, I changed the "Local Settings" to "locals~1" and things are great now.

Thanks for sharing! ^_^

I just solved one another variant of this problem....

2010-10-08T00:25:33.491-07:00

I just solved one another variant of this problem. I used ProcessMonitor to find suspicios actions and the steps vere these:
1.,In registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\VirtualDeviceDrivers there was a reference to virtual drive driver "rnbovdd.dll". This file was not on the drive => clear the value in regedit. This was probably the biggest problem.

2., In C:\Windows\Fonts the files vga852.fon, vgafixe.fon and vgasyse.fon were missing they are referenced from registry HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\GRE_Initialize. Microsoft says, these files should be in dllcache so I copied them there too. See http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc939631.aspx
3., The Path in Environment variables contained one non existing path. This was probably not the major problem, but still I fixed this.

We had this hard error message when trying to prin...

2010-09-17T07:26:51.170-07:00

We had this hard error message when trying to print from a 16 bit program ... turned out to be the wrong printer set as the default. The printer set as default was no longer on the domain...

You are da man!

2010-09-03T15:49:48.313-07:00

You are da man!

...."could not execute xyz.exe".... the...

2010-02-24T08:53:15.282-08:00

...."could not execute xyz.exe"....

the file path name is proablly still too long..you need to move the install file closer to the root of C:

for example: C:\TEMP\setup.exe

instead of

C:\documents and settings\username\desktop\folder\setup.exe

Wow....worked like a charm thanks Jeff.....

2010-02-17T13:52:57.039-08:00

Wow....worked like a charm thanks Jeff.....

great one Jeff! worked for me as well....now I do ...

2009-12-18T00:21:27.239-08:00

great one Jeff! worked for me as well....now I do not get the "ntvdm hard error" , but now the command prompt says...."could not execute xyz.exe"....any clues ?

thanks! (server 2003)

2009-12-04T16:28:37.925-08:00

thanks! (server 2003)

Thanks. This was very helpful. I had eliminated th...

2009-07-14T08:51:27.242-07:00

Thanks. This was very helpful. I had eliminated the other causes. -BenT

Thanks for the info. It fixed my issue today.

2009-06-22T09:01:24.229-07:00

Thanks for the info. It fixed my issue today.