Simple problem?

[Xanthguy]

For some reason, when I woke up from a nap today, my computer was frozen. When I rebooted, I got a missing or corrupt command.com, ifshlp and himem.sys message.

I'm running XP pro.
If I sys C: from a boot disk, will it fix this?
what if I just copied those files to their directories. I've also heard that command.com resides in two places in my hard drive.

Please give me advice on this; I'd prefer not to reformat my hard drive because it's not partitioned and I would lose everything. Can i reinstall windows without formatting, or is there something more simple I could do?

Thanks in advance.
--Xg

 

[VicodiN]

You can allow your system to attempt to 'repair' your Windows.... You can perform this pretty much in the same fashion as reformatting, just 'attempt to repair' instead of 'installing a fresh copy'.

 

[SandLizard]

if your data is that important, bring your hd to a friends comp (or a backup box if you have it) and make sure you xfer all your 'good stuff' --> in my case, pr0n...and old homework, but you know what is more important.

but definitely try the repair first, though from my experience, it don't do jack squat. and jack left town.
i've never tried to sys c: from a boot, only done that off of a format, but I don't think that will help --someone correct me if i'm wrong.

helpful hint (in my opinion): if you do reformat, partition windows to a small (3-5gb) partition, install all programs to a different partition, so if you do have to format, you don't lose any data, but you usually have to reinstall all programs, unless you back up the registry.

-sandlizard

 

[DanTMWTMP]

Originally posted by: SandLizard
if your data is that important, bring your hd to a friends comp (or a backup box if you have it) and make sure you xfer all your 'good stuff' --> in my case, pr0n...and old homework, but you know what is more important.

but definitely try the repair first, though from my experience, it don't do jack squat. and jack left town.
i've never tried to sys c: from a boot, only done that off of a format, but I don't think that will help --someone correct me if i'm wrong.

helpful hint (in my opinion): if you do reformat, partition windows to a small (3-5gb) partition, install all programs to a different partition, so if you do have to format, you don't lose any data, but you usually have to reinstall all programs, unless you back up the registry.

-sandlizard

dittto....this is the best way..

otherwise, boot up from the XP CD, and go into recovery console....and recover the files from the CD's i386 or x386 folder? something like that....

recovering registry via recovery console
another recovery console helping fixing boot thing...
another fix that i did to my comp... <---i had a similar problem w/ ur problem...fixed it w/ this...

try all the others as well...
hope that helped...

make sure to find a friend w/ a comp to back up on FIRST...

 

[Xanthguy]

Thanks for the responses guys. I messed around trying to replace command.com and himem.sys, but to no avail. The boot disk making system for XP is a bit buggy I think, and I only had one disk out of three that actually worked. Odd....
In any event, I backed up my word documents through Dos, and had to say goodbye to massive anime collection and pr0n. Oh well. Hello good friend kazaa. 🙂

By the way, winXP wouldn't even offer me Repair installation option. I think that I either have a bad sector on my hard drive or got hit with a particularly nasty virus; most likely the former.

Thanks for the advice, as always.

--Xg

 

[waitman]

By the way, winXP wouldn't even offer me Repair installation option. I think that I either have a bad sector on my hard drive or got hit with a particularly nasty virus; most likely the former.
Kazaa Most likely, heard lots of stories about that