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November 8th, 2004 01:00
Error: xms driver not installed
I'm sorry if I posted this in the wrong forum but I'm not exactly sure where to ask this question. My neice owns a dimension desktop (running Windows ME) and decided to start deleting files she thought she didn't need. Lo and behold she got into her system files and deleted a bunch of stuff in there . . . Today she called me because her computer was getting the error:
I/O subsystem driver failed to load. Either a file in the .IOSYS subdirectory is corrupt or the system is low on memory
I did a search on Dell's website and came across this fix:
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I walked her through that process over the phone and it didn't help - in fact, I think it made things worse. Now she's getting the following error when she tries to boot from a boot disk:
xms driver not installed
She is fine completely reformatting her hard drive as she backed up her files on a CD's recently. But I don't know how to get around this error message to do so. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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Denny Denham
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November 8th, 2004 03:00
That error is not associated with DOS. It sounds as though she has a non-standard boot diskette. See if downloading and using one from here allows her to format the hard drive prior to reinstalling ME.