Hi,
    When we run into this up at out college, we simply go into the root of 'C',
un-hide both the 'drvspace.bin' & 'dblspace.bin' (using attrib.exe) and reboot.
All is well again.
    Hope this helps!
                                Wayne Adams



Joe Pearson wrote:

> Hi List
> After installing a new piece of software (realjukebox) I was unable to boot
> up, with the following error:
>
> Error in device IOS:
> An iosubsys driver failed to load
> Either a file in .\iosubsys is corrupt,
> or memory is low.
>
> This error appears after the prompt "Load all windows drivers?" in a
> step-by-step boot.
>
> The c:\windows\system\iosubsys directory contains the same files as before.
> Memory is 32MB, Win95 4.00.1111, IE5.  So I think the error message given is
> a red herring.
>
> Restoring the registry from immediately before the install fixes this
> problem (but of course the software does not run).  I exported the registry
> before and after install and compared the two; there are hundreds of
> differences but they all seem to be in HKLM\Software\Classes\CLSID\,
> HKLM\Software\Classes\Software\RealNetworks\  and
> HKLM\Software\Classes\Typelib\.  No devices, Run keys or anything I would
> expect to affect boot-up … except that the key
> [HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\Software\RealNetworks\Update\6.0\Preferences\Componen
> ts\taiko:1.0\Reg8] is
> @="-2147483647|Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Run|RealJukebox
> Systray"
>
> How to diagnose a problem like this?
>
> (I compared the .reg files using DOS fc.exe - are there better tools for
> this purpose?)
>
> Thanks - Joe
>
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