Are you booting FROM the diskette (diskette in drive a before you turn
pc on)?  If so, your diskette is not complete.  If not, you should.
Let's assume you are.
Remove the diskette.  Boot the pc, and while the early bios messages are
appearing, press and hold the F8 key until the windows start menu
appears (some of my systems require you to press and hold the Ctrl key
instead).  Choose 'command prompt only'.  Copy himem.sys to the windows
directory from the diskette.

If you aren't booting from the diskette, insert the diskette.  It must
be the same version of win98 you have installed on the hard drive.  Boot
the computer.  at the A: prompt, type
sys a: c:
to repair the boot directory on your hard disk.  Copy himem.sys from the
diskette to the windows directory.

I neither of these work, get another boot diskette, and use the second
suggestion above.
Make sure the diskette contains himem.sys and sys.com (from the
\windows\command directory), and was formatted with the box 'copy system
files' checked.
Tom Turak

-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Hitsman [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2000 1:43 PM

Hi.....My question is acouple questions in one. My HIMEM.SYS was
accidently deleted. Now my PC will only go through the "systems"
analysis  and stop before it gets to Windows. I was wondering how I can
uninstall Win98 from this DOS screen and reinstall it. I have a
Windows98 start up disc, when I've tried to us it to either reinstall my
HIMEM.SYS or Uninstall my Win98, it goes to the menu that asks me what
mode to go into. I've been selecting "safe command prompts" I get a line
telling me to "Type the name of the Command Interpreter (e.g.,
C:\WINDOWS/COMMAND.COM)" C>. No matter what I type here, it goes back to
the same message.Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

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