Win 98 won't load; ''himem.sys missing'' Friday, December 19, 2003 at 12:25 pm Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Pete (1 messages posted) My computer had been running well until a few days ago... after starting it up, in place of the startup options, e.g., Normal, Safe Mode, etc, I got an "Invalid System disk" error, even tho there were no discs in either the floppy or CD-ROM drives. I rebooted & held down the Delete key to bring up Help, which said if I got an "Invalid System Disk" error I should restart my computer using the Win 98 Startup Disk, select option 2 (run disk with CD-ROM support) on the Startup menu, then at the A:\ prompt type SYS X: where X is the Host or Startup drive. Since I wasn't loading compression software, Help said the drive would be C. I did so, and a "System transferred" message appeared. I rebootedand things seemed to be loading OK until I got this message: "The file himem.sys is either missing or corrupted." How do I find it, and what do I do? Thanks! Pete Responses to this message: re: Win 98 won't load; ''himem.sys missing'' (JKarl: Friday, December 19, 2003 at 2:10 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Win 98 won't load; ''himem.sys missing'' (Pete: Fri, Dec 19, 2003, 12:25 pm) re: Win 98 won't load; ''himem.sys missing'' (JKarl: Fri, Dec 19, 2003, 2:10 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum