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himem.sys not found after win95 install
after upgrading from win3.1 to win95, win95 boots up to
my A:\ drive and gives an error message saying...himem.sys
not found. it then asks for the command.com file and boots
to A:\ i have a Dell486(upgraded to a pentium 75mh) 32 meg
ram, 2 hard drives, 1 cdrom.
my A:\ drive and gives an error message saying...himem.sys
not found. it then asks for the command.com file and boots
to A:\ i have a Dell486(upgraded to a pentium 75mh) 32 meg
ram, 2 hard drives, 1 cdrom.
Check your BIOS for the boot order. It should be A,C, SCSI or similar. Check your system for viruses with a bootable floppy disk virus program like McAfee's emergency disk, or F-Prot. If that doesn't do it, use a boot disk with system files on it, and type "sys C:" at the A: prompt, then remove the floppy disk and reboot. If the system still won't boot to the C: drive, try this: with the bootable floppy in, at the a: prompt, type "fdisk /mbr" and hit enter. When it finishes, remove the floppy disk and boot again. If it still doesn't boot, to the C: drive, make sure the entries in the BIOS are correct for the drive, or if the BIOS will auto-detect, set it to that. If none of that works, it's possible the hard drive is defective. The main thing is, if the BIOS is set right, there are no viruses present, the drive has system files and a FAT table, and if the boot order is correct, it should boot.
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On C: rename the autoexec.bat and config.sys to autoexec.bak and config.bak and see if 95 starts.