This is what it shows after it starts booting up: warning- high memory area is not available additional low memory will be used instead c:\> c:\> etc.... help me please!!!

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Morning Kate, Can we have some more details please? Did the pc ever work OK? Have you done anything recently that may have caused this (e.g. installed a program etc)? What kind of pc, disk space, memory etc?


On Thursday, April 28, 2005 at 3:40 pm, Kate wrote:
>This is what it shows after it starts booting up: warning- high memory area is not
>available
>additional low memory will be used instead
>c:\>
>c:\>
>etc....
>
>help me please!!!

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Ok, I was making a picture slideshow on a very old laptop which has windows 95. It was working fine and I was all done and it said drive C does not have enough memory to save. So I was just going to transfer it onto a blank cd and save it to that. Well when I re-booted my computer, it wont even let me get into safe mode. It keeps telling me I have no high memory and what not...I NEED to save that slideshow onto a cd, its very important, so anything you guys have would help! thanks!


On Friday, April 29, 2005 at 4:29 am, Don wrote:
>Morning Kate,
>Can we have some more details please? Did the pc ever work OK? Have you done anything
>recently that may have caused this (e.g. installed a program etc)? What kind of
>pc, disk space, memory etc?
>
>
>

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Hi, 
Can you boot up to a Command prompt or Safe Mode command prompt, (different than 
Safe Mode)? Hit F8 during/after boot self-test and try.  Does your laptop have a 
working floppy drive and did you try using the emergency boot disk? Get one at bootdisk.com. 
You probably need to replace the config.sys file which contains the DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS 
command line and verify the himem.sys file is in the windows dir.

hth

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If no joy. and your computer has a floppy drive,
go to www.bootdisk.com and download a bootdisk.
95B version should be O.K. It's a program, so you'll need to install a clean formatted 
floppy disk in the "a" drive of your good computer. Double click the down load and 
it will install all the files to the floppy.
When done, install the floppy in the bad machine, and boot up with it in. At the 
A:\> prompt type..
sys C: and press enter. When done. Remove floppy, power down and restart with all 
disks out.







On Thursday, April 28, 2005 at 3:40 pm, Kate wrote:

>This is what it shows after it starts booting up: warning- high memory area is not 

>available

>additional low memory will be used instead

>c:\>

>c:\>

>etc....

>

>help me please!!! 

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Morning Kate, It's me again. So you tried to save your slideshow to a CD on an old laptop? I'll assume you mean a 3.5 inch diskette. I doubt that an old win95 laptop had a writeable CD. Anyway, when you are at that C:\ prompt, try copying config.sys to a diskette, take the diskette to the pc you are using to get here, open the file with notepad and paste the contents in a message here. Next, try running scandisk at the C:\ prompt on that old laptop. What do you get? Next, do a DIR at the C:\ prompt, do you see your root files?, the windows directory?, how much free space do you have on C:\? Start digging out your laptop support media. It is remotely possible that the laptop C drive has been "hosed". Will look for your results tomorrow AM. Good luck, Don


On Thursday, April 28, 2005 at 3:40 pm, Kate wrote:
>This is what it shows after it starts booting up: warning- high memory area is not
>available
>additional low memory will be used instead
>c:\>
>c:\>
>etc....
>
>help me please!!!

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the problem is my laptop does not have a floppy disc thing...im trying to find someone who has a portable one, but hardly anyone has them anymore.


On Saturday, April 30, 2005 at 2:55 am, Don wrote:
>Morning Kate,
>It's me again. So you tried to save your slideshow to a CD on an old laptop? I'll
>assume you mean a 3.5 inch diskette. I doubt that an old win95 laptop had a writeable
>CD. Anyway, when you are at that C:\ prompt, try copying config.sys to a diskette,
>take the diskette to the pc you are using to get here, open the file with notepad
>and paste the contents in a message here.
>
>Next, try running scandisk at the C:\ prompt on that old laptop. What do you get?
> Next, do a DIR at the C:\ prompt, do you see your root files?, the windows directory?,
>how much free space do you have on C:\?
>
>Start digging out your laptop support media. It is remotely possible that the laptop
>C drive has been "hosed". Will look for your results tomorrow AM. Good luck, Don
>
>
>

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I tryed to make a boot disk but when I put it in my laptop it says "non-system disk or disk error replace and press any key when ready"??


On Saturday, April 30, 2005 at 2:55 am, Don wrote:
>Morning Kate,
>It's me again. So you tried to save your slideshow to a CD on an old laptop? I'll
>assume you mean a 3.5 inch diskette. I doubt that an old win95 laptop had a writeable
>CD. Anyway, when you are at that C:\ prompt, try copying config.sys to a diskette,
>take the diskette to the pc you are using to get here, open the file with notepad
>and paste the contents in a message here.
>
>Next, try running scandisk at the C:\ prompt on that old laptop. What do you get?
> Next, do a DIR at the C:\ prompt, do you see your root files?, the windows directory?,
>how much free space do you have on C:\?
>
>Start digging out your laptop support media. It is remotely possible that the laptop
>C drive has been "hosed". Will look for your results tomorrow AM. Good luck, Don
>
>
>

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after I did that it says insert system disk in drive A:\ press any key to continue...i do that and it just keeps repeating, so frustrated


On Friday, April 29, 2005 at 12:59 pm, jack hall wrote:
>If no joy. and your computer has a floppy drive,
>go to www.bootdisk.com and download a bootdisk.
>95B version should be O.K. It's a program, so you'll need to install a clean formatted
>floppy disk in the "a" drive of your good computer. Double click the down load and
>it will install all the files to the floppy.
>When done, install the floppy in the bad machine, and boot up with it in. At the
>A:\> prompt type..
>sys C: and press enter. When done. Remove floppy, power down and restart with all
>disks out.
>
>
>

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Well, I'm gettting lost. Either you have an "a" drive, referred to as a floppy drive, 
aka 3.5" or sometimes called a diskette drive, or you don't .
Yes or no. And we can take it from there. 






On Saturday, April 30, 2005 at 6:51 am, Kate wrote:

>

>after I did that it says insert system disk in drive A:\ press any key to continue...i 

>do that and it just keeps repeating, so frustrated

>

> 

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Yes, I do have a floppy disk drive


On Saturday, April 30, 2005 at 8:56 am, jack hall wrote:
>
>Well, I'm gettting lost. Either you have an "a" drive, referred to as a floppy drive,
>aka 3.5" or sometimes called a diskette drive, or you don't .
>Yes or no. And we can take it from there.
>
>

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If you have an "A" drive on your bad computer, I'm assuming you don't on your good 
computer. 
Your going to have to make a good bootdisk for your bad computer, so you can boot 
the bad computer to an A:\> prompt. We have to get that far.
There are 2 computers here. You have, a good one, and a bad one. What equipment is 
on each one. Floppy drives ? cd-rom drives ? cd burner ?
If you can't make a boot disk on your good equipment, you'll need a friend to do 
it for you..









On Saturday, April 30, 2005 at 1:25 pm, Kate wrote:

>Yes, I do have a floppy disk drive

>

>

> 

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Ok....on my "bad" laptop I have a floppy disk as well as cd-rom. On my "good" computer I have a floppy disk, cd-rom as well as cd burner. Just let me know where I go from there haha thanks again for all your help!


On Saturday, April 30, 2005 at 1:40 pm, jack hall wrote:
>If you have an "A" drive on your bad computer, I'm assuming you don't on your good
>computer.
>Your going to have to make a good bootdisk for your bad computer, so you can boot
>the bad computer to an A:\> prompt. We have to get that far.
>There are 2 computers here. You have, a good one, and a bad one. What equipment is
>on each one. Floppy drives ? cd-rom drives ? cd burner ?
>If you can't make a boot disk on your good equipment, you'll need a friend to do
>it for you..
>
>
>
>
>

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Morning Kate, Sounds like you were not successful. What did you do to try to make a boot disk? You might try running scandisk, then the DIR command (I described in an earlier post) from the C: prompt on your bad laptop, then tell me what you get.


On Saturday, April 30, 2005 at 6:45 am, Kate wrote:
>I tryed to make a boot disk but when I put it in my laptop it says "non-system disk
>or disk error replace and press any key when ready"??
>
>
>

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Ok, on your good computer you should have made a boot up disk. See my earlier post. 
That boot disk should be then inserted in your bad computer with it turned off, and 
nothing in the cd-rom drive. Now the bad computer should be started up, go thru some 
gyrations, and arrive at the A:\> prompt.
What happens when you try that??









On Saturday, April 30, 2005 at 4:15 pm, Kate wrote:

>Ok....on my "bad" laptop I have a floppy disk as well as cd-rom. On my "good" computer 

>I have a floppy disk, cd-rom as well as cd burner. Just let me know where I go from 

>there haha thanks again for all your help!

>

>

> 

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