re: Win 98 won't load; ''himem.sys missing''
Friday, December 19, 2003 at 2:10 pm Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by JKarl
(86 messages posted)
On Friday, December 19, 2003 at 12:25 pm, Pete wrote:
>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
>
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