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someone accidentally deleted command.com from my sys and now it cant boot. If I took a dos 6.22 disk and sys my drive. it place a command.com but still wont boot correctly. All it does is boot up with the date like normal dos boot up. It wont load windows. How do I make it boot up and load windows automatically?
Sounds like you have lost your autoexec.bat and possibly your config.sys file as well.
First of try typeing
CD WINDOWS and press enter
then
WIN and press enter
to see if your Windows files still exsist?
Come back and let me know.
Also check that you have a \DOS Directory as well, as you will need the DOS files to create new autoexec & config files.
ANON
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ok.. i can load windows if i boot up with my dos disk and under c:\windwos i type win and it came up. but trying to boot just without boot disk its still dosnt come up. I need to know what should i type in the autoexec and config to get this going. btw under c:\ there's a DOS directory as well. I'm not sure whats all the command lines and path to type in for the autoexec and config. Thanks ANNON!
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Same thing.
edit autoexec.bat
add as the last line:win
save and exit
but if your autoexec.bat and config.sys got deleted you may have to recreate them for things to work right.
You'll need at least a path statement in autoexec.batpath=c:\dos;c:\windows
(and prob'ly other lines as well)
You did copy command.com from a: to c: ?
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ok.. i sys the drive so command.com is there already.. eveyrthing is in place.. now it loads but i get this message. "missing himem.sys; make sure that the file is in your windows directory and its location is correctly specified in your config.sys" what lines do i have to put in the config.sys to make this happen?
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Ben - it's 6.22 (I think)
Chewy, in config.sys:
device=c:\dos\himem.sys
device=c:\dos\emm386.exe RAM
dos=high,umbDOS622 has a copy of himem.sys (1994), and Win31 has a copy as well (1992) - might as well use the DOS one, not much difference, as long as it gets loaded correctly.
This will set up memory management for your system - which will make Win3xx happy.
You might need to set up your mouse, too, at least for DOS:autoexec (usu):
lh c:\mymouse\mymouse.com
(wherever and whatever your mouse driver is)
It never hurts to back up your autoexec and config files (just in case);-)
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Lo there, i'm trying to install win 98 but when i try to load the boot disc..it wont work....the real problem is with command.com as i deleted it as well as something else to try and clear my c:\ drive so the install might work ..it now has buggered up my machine..i tried to copy the a:\ command.com from my boot disk the the c:| come up with a error saying c:\command enter path or directory...please help even if it just reseting the harddrive to normal so i can start all over again
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2 things:
i) If you start a fresh post, you'll get more responses
ii) This is the Win31 page, the Win9x page would be better..... actually 3 things
iii) Why did you think removing an essential file (command.com) would be an improvement??
Try booting from A: and then do the copy; copy is a function of command.com... and since it's not where it's supposed to be...
Not trying to be mean, but seriously - think about these things before you go ahead and do them. The "something else" you deleted might be causing probs as well. If you can boot from your install disk, just do that and go ahead and install Win98 - it'll take care of the rest.
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I have the same problem with command.com being deleted from a win98 PC. Used sys C: from a boot floppy to restore key system files. PC will boot but wont start win98, just goes to a c:\> prompt. can CD to \windows and type win. Get the HIMEM.sys not found, but it is in windows directory. Since you guys knew solution to similar problem under win3x, thought I give you a shot for win98. Know this isnt win98 group though. Can you help? Thanks.
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I dont know how to view command.com, how do you view hidden files? I recently tried to install a dsl software to my win98 and at the process the error posted "cannot find COMMAND.COM and im wondering if it gotted deleated accidenly. Im no comp genius but i was trying to find COMMAND.COM and cant find it, please help
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