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From: Geoff Rhodes
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 08:11

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In article <3ac157cc.3321193@news.ozemail.com.au>, Andrew <Andrew@in.the
.message.is.the.address> writes
>Hi
>
>my Win95 crashed and it seems there is an invalid setting in the
>MSDOS.SYS file.
>
>I tried rebooting from the startup disk
>it kind of worked... I was told to type     :::::>   sys c:   to fix
>the problem but I still cant start up windows. It says it cant find
>HIMEM.SYS but it is in its directory.
What exactly do you mean by 'it is in its directory' - which directory?

What makes you think MSDOS.SYS is wrong?  The main things in there are
the windows paths - are they correct?
e.g.
[Paths]
WinDir=C:\WINDOWS
WinBootDir=C:\WINDOWS
HostWinBootDrv=C

Can you boot to DOS without the startup floppy - using the F8 menu? If
you can, what happens if you run 'win.com' from the windows directory?

Geoff
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