HIMEM.SYS is missing

dkworthington · 11-05-2008, 05:30 PM

When I boot, the Windows 98 opening screen shows, but part way through the process, I am prompted to provide the numbers from the Certificate of Authenticity, which I don't have. I do have the Master Recovery CD, but it apparently it doesn't have a boot track. When I boot up in Safe Mode and attempt to run Setup, or its equivalent, on the recovery CD, I can't access the ROM Drive. When I run WIN.COM from the DOS prompt, I get the message "HIMEM.SYS is missing", but the file HIMEM.SYS does exist. Could it be corrupted? How can I recover?

**kev1952** · 11-07-2008, 08:12 PM

No matter what you try here it won't work without the COA.

11-05-2008, 05:30 PM	#1 (permalink)
dkworthington Registered User Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 1 OS: Win98	HIMEM.SYS is missing When I boot, the Windows 98 opening screen shows, but part way through the process, I am prompted to provide the numbers from the Certificate of Authenticity, which I don't have. I do have the Master Recovery CD, but it apparently it doesn't have a boot track. When I boot up in Safe Mode and attempt to run Setup, or its equivalent, on the recovery CD, I can't access the ROM Drive. When I run WIN.COM from the DOS prompt, I get the message "HIMEM.SYS is missing", but the file HIMEM.SYS does exist. Could it be corrupted? How can I recover?

11-07-2008, 08:12 PM	#2 (permalink)
kev1952 TSF Enthusiast Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Townsville, Australia Posts: 1,007 OS: Win Vista Home Premium	Re: HIMEM.SYS is missing No matter what you try here it won't work without the COA. __________________ Cheers.... Kev *"The Definition of an Upgrade: Take old bugs out, put new ones in."* Please don't send me PM's for support. Post in the forums for everyone to benefit.