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I have a newly built system that crashed today. I had just closed one program and was trying to open a new one when the system froze. I powered off to reboot. I was taken to the same screen that comes up and lets you go to Safe Mode. At that screen I was given a message that said "Windows had detected a registry/configuration error." The next message said that the C:\Windows\HIMEM.SYS file was missing or corrupted. I was told to run SCANREG from the command line. It would not work. Everything I tried said that I could not read from that disk. I booted to my Win98 boot disk. I could get to the C: drive and see the files. I had trouble running the dir command. I could not run any .exe files on the C:\ drive. I tried to run SETUP from the Win98 CD (to reinstall Windows). I got the same error message. I built this system about a month ago. Everything has been working perfectly until now.
Is there a way to recover from this without reformatting and reinstalling everything?
My system:
AOpen AX6BCPro motherboard
PII 400
PC100 128MB
WD 4.1 HDD
Windows 98 SE
FDD, Zip, CDROM
Jimmy Fikes
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