My path to Liberation

[Heydrich]

Hello, ill make this quick as I can. This guy who runs his business out of his computer had a HDD crash. He was running Win 98 and decided to Upgrade. So he installed XP Upgrade. Long story short he started getting blue stop screens: 0x0000000A. So I came to the conclusion that it wasnt a hardware issue because I have an extra box I hack around with and installed his HDD and ran diagnostics checks with. So it was in a boot loop (Xp tried to load then Blue Stop Screen). Found out it was bad partition. When I would use XP boot cd it didnt give me an option to repair (files system [Unknown]) So I baught Hard Drive Mechanic. Now that the partition is fixed it no longer tries to enter XP, rather 98. It fixed the drive like a charm. Reboot. Now there is no more XP load screen then blue stop screen. Now its Win 98 load screen then to the following:

1. Normal
2. Logged (\BOOTLOG.TXT)
3. Safe mode
4. Step-by-step confirmation
5. Command prompt only
6. Safe mode command prompt only

Enter a choice: (Any choice prompts the following below)

Warning: Windows has detected a registry/configuration error.
Choose command prompt only and run SCANREG.

(SCANREG prompts error too)

The following is missing or corrupted: C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS

The following is missing or corrupted: C:\WINDOWS\DBLBUFF.SYS

The following is missing or corrupted: C:\WINDOWS\IFSHLP.SYS

The following is missing or corrupted: COMMAND.COM

Type the name of the COMMAND INTERPRETER (e.g., C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM)

C>_


I dl a Win 98 boot disk from bootdisk.com and loaded it to a command prompt. It had two of the missing 4 files I needed.

Command.com
Himem.sys

So I copied those files:
Copy Himem.sys C:\windows
Copy command.com C:\windows

Then I reboot and low and behold only the other two missing files were prompt.

2 down 2 to go. Any suggestions where I can find these files:

DBLBUFF.SYS
IFSHLP.SYS

 

[Harvey]

DBLBUFF.SYS and IFSHLP.SYS are both in Win98_39.cab File on the Win 98 disk or if cab files are on the drive. See here.

How to use Extract.exe to copy files from the cabinet files.

 

[Heydrich]

I have got an update. Found those files and copied them to my C:windows drive. I rebooted and then it flashed win 98 load screen and told me I was missing WIN.COM.

Win.com I know I have to extract that from a Win 98 CD which I dont have.
I think it will be WIN.CNF, extracted from a cabinet file?
What I have:
Knoppix
UBCD (ultimate boot CD)
Win 95 boot floppy
Win 98 boot floppy
Win XP boot CD

running out of options.

 

[Harvey]

Your best bet is to get it from a local friend who's running Win 98.

I'm afraid the OS is very corrupted, and you may get more missing message errors as you keep adding the ones you know about. If so, get the disk, and start a new installation.

 

[Heydrich]

Well, ummm, I copied win.com to drive and rebooted...........when I clicked boot in normal mode it just shut down! WTF No more reboot it just shuts down now. So I think your right Harvey.

 

[Heydrich]

Anybody know anything about Xcopy? And why it tells me ",Incorrect MS-DOS version."
I load Win 98 boot drive and then once at A: I put in the Win 95 boot disk because it has xcopy.

Do I need to edit my autoexec.bat file? I can use copy, but I need Xcopy's /s feature command. Im going to copy the entire drive as follows: A:>xcopy C: D:\*.*

 

[Raduque]

Win98 isn't corrupted; When your friend installed WinXP, it deleted the old OS (win98), which is why win98 is complaining about missing system files. Your best bet would be to get a win98 CD and reinstall it.