Well, now that even my daughter's edutainment programs need 100MB
of diskspace, I went to add another HD, this time a 13GB, which
makes four IDE devices on her machine. But Windows couldn't find
HIMEM.SYS and IFSHELP.SYS. This was before formatting the new
drive, so it's not a drive name problem. When I ran scandisk, it
created 23 directories labelled C:\DIR0001 to C:\DIR00024 or
somesuch. Then it couldn't lost DBLBUFF.SYS also. Sheesh. (So,
do I really want to give this filesystem 13GB to foul up? I don't
think so....)
In the interest of wiping my 4-yr-old daughter's tears, is there
any way short of reinstalling Windows from scratch to salvage
those files? Any magic bullet short of a backed-up registry (no
I don't have one, but will in the future, by golly) that might
help?
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David S. Jackson http://www.dsj.net
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