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by warrenl

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When I try to use the dos prompt on my son's computer and type "scanreg /restore" I receive a bad command report.

If I don't type anything I shortly receive a list of "the following files are missing or corrupted".

c:\windows\himem.sys
error in config.sys file on line 1
c:\windows\emm386.exe
error in config.sys file on line 2
c:\windows\dblbuff.sys
c;\WINDOWS\IFSHLP.SYS

Any ideas greatly appreciated

warren

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by vinnyd

The bad command is because there is no path to where the commands are located.

The other errors are there because the config.sys file has lines in it pointing to the c:\windows folder to get the himem.sys and other files.

The himem.sys, emm386.exe and dblbuff.sys and ifshlp.sys are suppose to be in the windows folder

You can edit the config.sys file using notepad and remove those entries but I would assume that more files are missing from the windows folder. that you would need to get back from the win 98 cd.

by warrenl

VinnyD,

I should have said that we can't even get in the safe mode. My son lives in another city, and this trouble clearing is being tried via the telephone.
He has since run the win98 CD and is still in trouble. I think he is on the verge of taking the puter to someone that knows what he or she is doing.
Meanwhile I will leave the question open for a few days

thanks Vinny

by otl

Have him go to the command prompt (can be done through the CD boot) or a bootable floppy. Then to c:\windows\command and run chkdsk/f (check the HD and fix errors, repeat until there are no errors). Can clean out some of the bad registry entries by using cleanreg or scanreg for unknown entries /? will give you a list of options.

Could give you a good config.sys tomorrow.

by otl

Per Win 98 Documentation;

AUTO|NOAUTO
Specifies whether MS-DOS should automatically load
Himem.sys, Ifshlp.sys, Dblbuff.sys, and Setver.exe
device drivers if they are not explicitly loaded in
your Config.sys file. The default setting, AUTO,
automatically loads these device drivers. The AUTO
setting also automatically uses the BUFFERSHIGH,
FILESHIGH, FCBSHIGH, LASTDRIVEHIGH, and STACKSHIGH
commands, whether the -HIGH form of the command is
used or not. If you specify the NOAUTO parameter, you
must load these device drivers and use the -HIGH form of
the above commands in order to take advantage of them.

by otl

Mine reads;

DEVICE=C:\WIN\HIMEM.SYS
DEVICE=C:\WIN\EMM386.EXE /FRAME=NONE
DEVICE=C:\WIN\setver.exe

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