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One of the assistants at Boy Scouts turned the IBM Thinkpad off while booting up. there is not WIN386.swp file and I get the following Message when booting in SAFE Mode:
HIMEM is testing extended memory...done
Windows XMS Driver Version 3.95
Extended Memory Sepcification (XMS) Version 3.0
Copyrite 1988-1995
ERROR: Himem.sys has detected unreliable XMS Memory at address 01000010 XMS Driver not installed.to continue starting your computer, press enter
HIMEM.SYS is missing
(it's there in both windows and root)
When in regular boot the message is :
While initializing device VCACHE:
Windows protection Errpr. You need to restart your computer
Try a startup floppy disk and at the A:\> type sys c then hit enter it should then make the drive bootable.
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The drive is bootable or else he wouldn't be getting the error messages.
Start the system and during the boot hold down the Ctrl or F8 key. Choose Command Prompt Only. (This puts you in raw dos mode.) At the C:> prompt, type in;
scanreg/restore
and pick a date that the system was last functioning properly. (You'll have five dates to choose from.)
If the above doesn't work, boot to raw dos (as explained above) and (at the C:> prompt) run;
scandisk c:
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I agree with Warlock that Ted should try a
sys c:
It does other things besides making the drive bootable. It restores msdos.sys
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The link that broni provided hit the nail on the head. Just to clarify something, the command "sys C:" overwrites the 3 files that are responsible for booting up DOS, Win95, and Win98. (those files are io.sys, msdos.sys, and command.com) This will not have any bearing on Ted's problem.
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"the command "sys C:" overwrites the 3 files that are responsible for booting up DOS, Win95, and Win98. (those files are io.sys, msdos.sys, and command.com)"
IO.SYS will NOT be restored/overwritten if it exists on the boot drive.
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"IO.SYS will NOT be restored/overwritten if it exists on the boot drive."
I respectfully ask where you got that idea.
I remember back several years ago studying books for A+ certification and taking formal training classes, and they all said IO.sys will be overwritten, along with the bootstrap loader, msdos.sys, and command.com if the "sys C:" command is used.
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raincheck, you are correct. It was a typo in my response. I had meant msdos.sys, NOT io.sys. My response was in respect to;
"It does other things besides making the drive bootable. It restores msdos.sys"
Sorry for the confusion. But I still stand on the statement, ~this~ time meaning msdos.sys. The msdos.sys which is initially placed on a drive by the sys command to make it bootable contains only the line;
;sys
If the msdos.sys which resides on a drive contains more than this line, it will not be overwritten.
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