Can anyone suggest a solution to this?

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2 total messages Started by Andrew Mon, 26 Mar 2001 14:53

#157

Author: Andrew
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 14:53

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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.


Any ideas please?


I have an old HDD with the same version of Windows 95 and MSDOS.SYS
exists there - can I copy this to the new HDD that is having trouble?
I tried using someone elses file but as it was another pc it didnt
take or accept it. Alternatively there exists the old MSDOS.BAK on the
system can I rename this as the new MSDOS.SYS to replace it?

thanks...

if you could email an answer please send to 
ea@ozemail.com.au

regards

Andrew

Re: Can anyone suggest a solution to this?

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Author: 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
-- 
Geoff Rhodes

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