In a message dated 10/19/98 10:47:41 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
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<< I get the message"insufficient memory to load system files" message.
I have checked config.sys and it had DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS
/TESTMEM:OFF I got rid of the /TESTMEM:OFF but had the same results.
I ran FDISK and it said usage was 100X on the primary DOS partition.
I don't understand why it would be 100X or know if this is the
problem.
>>
Hi Mike:
I had a similar problem in that fdisk only recognized the first 500 mgs. On
FDISK, how many megs is it reporting?
I solved my problem by going into CMOS and running the HDD detection
again. I had three options for the hard drive: normal, large, and LBA. I
changed from normal to LBA ; went back to FDISK and deleted the partition then
did a FDISK /mbr; restarted and went to FDISK and set 1 partition and
reformatted. FDISK then reported the full 2.1 gig. Later, I found two boot
sector viruses: Kohl & Bugexe. The viruses caused my system to run in dos-
compatibility mode.
HTH,
Kevin Nowicki
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