Greetings,
All was well - then had a crash. On reboot - started getting the following:
"warning: windows has detected a registry/configuration error. Choose command prompt only, and run SCANREG."
--> Unable to run scanreg.
(step by step boot process)
all ok until process following files/->
Device=C\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS/TESTMEM:OFF
receive -> The following file is missing or corrupted: C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS
There is an error in you Config.sys file on line 6
Device=C\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE NOEMS
receive -> The following file is missing or corrupted: C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE
There is an error in you Config.sys file on line 7
Device=C\WINDOWS\DBLBUFF.SYS
receive -> The following file is missing or corrupted: C:\WINDOWS\DBLBUFF.SYS
Device=C\WINDOWS\IFSHL.SYS
receive -> The following file is missing or corrupted: C:\WINDOWS\IFSHLP.SYS
and lastly -> "Warning: the high memory area (HMA) is not available. Additional low memory (below 640K0 will be used instead."
I have used McAfee rescue disk, and windows start up disk and tried to copy/restore everything I could - no help. During this process - noticed I don't have a "windows" directory on the C: drive. It has been a while since I worked on 98 - but I would think this is a big problem. Don't know how I got here - have Spybot and latest McAfee virus running. I was trying to print from the US postal service website, and had just updated AcroReader 6.0 when it crashed. Suspect I will need to reload 98 on top but thought I would check for any words of wisdom first. Thanx!!

All was well - then had a crash. On reboot - started getting the following:
"warning: windows has detected a registry/configuration error. Choose command prompt only, and run SCANREG."
--> Unable to run scanreg.
(step by step boot process)
all ok until process following files/->
Device=C\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS/TESTMEM:OFF
receive -> The following file is missing or corrupted: C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS
There is an error in you Config.sys file on line 6
Device=C\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE NOEMS
receive -> The following file is missing or corrupted: C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE
There is an error in you Config.sys file on line 7
Device=C\WINDOWS\DBLBUFF.SYS
receive -> The following file is missing or corrupted: C:\WINDOWS\DBLBUFF.SYS
Device=C\WINDOWS\IFSHL.SYS
receive -> The following file is missing or corrupted: C:\WINDOWS\IFSHLP.SYS
and lastly -> "Warning: the high memory area (HMA) is not available. Additional low memory (below 640K0 will be used instead."
I have used McAfee rescue disk, and windows start up disk and tried to copy/restore everything I could - no help. During this process - noticed I don't have a "windows" directory on the C: drive. It has been a while since I worked on 98 - but I would think this is a big problem. Don't know how I got here - have Spybot and latest McAfee virus running. I was trying to print from the US postal service website, and had just updated AcroReader 6.0 when it crashed. Suspect I will need to reload 98 on top but thought I would check for any words of wisdom first. Thanx!!