Need Help Please!
Everything was a OK when I left town on my DUAL BOOT Win XP Pro (SP2) on C:\& Win98SE on D:\ machine (Drive is FAT32 both partitions & both OS’s appear in the boot loader, Win XP Pro appears fine and I can see both drives in Win Explorer), but when I returned I went to boot into Win98SE side to go to Win Updates as they just released a patch and I wanted to grab it. But when it was booting into Win98SE it stopped w/ the following message (white on black DOS, not blue screened).;
Missing or corrupted file: D:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS
Missing or corrupted file: D:\WINDOWS\DBLBUFF.SYS
Missing or corrupted file: D:\WINDOWS\IFSHLP.SYS
C:\>Set tv dumpflags=8
C:\
Cannot find WIN.COM
Unable to continue loading windows
C:\>
(The files were present in D:\Windows, all were the correct sizes & dates as the cab files. I have tried to SYS D:\ from a startup disk (Files transferred fine), tried to extract the files from the cabs (extractions were successful), and even tried to copy and paste the files from a slave (from Drive H:\ actually), that I have installed that is an exact copy of both OS’s on G:\ & H:\ as originally installed(a mirrored RAID drive copy installed as a slave right now).RAID is actually currently shut off.
No go for any of those items tried…No changes in the Win98SE boot failure message, though Win XP Pro boots just fine. Checked all 4 partitions on both drives w/ 3 online AV scanners and Norton Corp and no infection present. Also Win DR. shows no problems checking all the drives and I ran a complete Disk CHK on ALL DRIVES (5 step) by scheduling 1 via Disk Dr. (I normally use the Win98SE side only when XP screws up and takes a dump, I can boot into 98SE & use Win Explorer to back everything up to CD and then schedule a Disk Chk and usually fix XP Pro as this is my production machine.
I’m missing something but I cannot for the life of me figure out what. Anyone have any ideas?
The reversion to Drive C:\ puzzles me to no end.