Hey man got an update for you. I looked into that prog you recommended above. Find another called Hard Drive Mechanic. (70$) So I dl it and ran it form floppy. It fixed a damaged boot sector and now I can repair missing or damaged files. My error screen has changed completely, easier to troubleshoot. Maybe you can help me with this, it says im missing the following from my faulty drive:


1. Normal
2. Logged (\BOOTLOG.TXT)
3. Safe mode
4. Step-by-step confirmation
5. Command prompt only
6. Safe mode command prompt only

Enter a choice: (Any choice prompts the following below)

Warning: Windows has detected a registry/configuration error.
Choose command prompt only and run SCANREG.

(SCANREG prompts error too)

The following is missing or corrupted: C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS

The following is missing or corrupted: C:\WINDOWS\DBLBUFF.SYS

The following is missing or corrupted: C:\WINDOWS\IFSHLP.SYS

The following is missing or corrupted: COMMAND.COM

Type the name of the COMMAND INTERPRETER (e.g., C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM)

C>_


Im guessing if I had a Windows 98 boot CD maybe I could fix this? XP boot CD will not give me an option to repair. So the question is how can I get these missing files back in memory drive.