Thanks everyone, I tried replacing the file and things seemed okay for a bit, but then I started getting stop errors for a number of things to the point that the computer became unusable. In the end I put '98 back on and put 2000 on a newer computer running an Asus motherboard and Celeron chip which I have till now favoured less. 2000 now runs beautifully.
I suspect I had a number of hardware issues that Win2K did not support.
> Stop C000026C {Unable to load device driver} \Sytem
Root\System32\Drivers\msfs.SYS device driver could not be loaded. Error
status was 0xc0000020
> Other details if of help - AMD K6 2 3D, 192Mb RAM, 10.2 Gb HDD - What
else do you want to know
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