2k I stand corrected, blackberry asked for os.
YOU asked what commands don't work. I had them in original post.

Thanks Merlin_2 for your interest.

Here's orginal post:

files missing/corrupt? can't make dos boot disk
« on: Dec 2nd, 2005, 12:27am » Quote Modify Remove

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Hi,

I was GIVEN an older 'puter from my friend for the purpose of playing older games like Kings Quest 6 (cd)

It has windows 95 and I don't know what ver. of dos.

I installed the game in dos, but when I went to play it gave message: not enough memory if you have any resident software, please remove and try again (i did this & that didn't help)

I decided to make a boot disk and I followed the directions from this WEBSITE.
it went ok... till I got to the, copy himem*.* a
it said file not found
also
copy emm.386*.* a: file not found
also mouse.com/or sys not found.

I then tried re-install game as it gives option to make a bootable disk from there and got the error message
can't find doublespace.sys

what can I do? I can't tell what version of ms dos is there because when I go to c:\ver it tell me I have windows 95 4.00

Do I have corrupt/missing files? Is there away to correct this.
How do I find out what version of dos I have?

I don't have any of the software that's in 'puter, but I do have a brand new version someone gave me of dos 6.22., although I would rather fix (if possible) whatever is wrong with the one that in there

Can I install that over whatever version I have in the computer?
I've never done ANYTHING like that is it pretty easy?

please advise,Do you have the win 95cdrom disk?

Confused.....as 6.22 is win3.1

when your pc boots what does the screen display on boot........win95 or do you have type in win....

And why has the boot ini file been edited......

what does it read........?list boot init file....The "not enough memory" message can mean one of two things:

1. You really don't have enough memory

2. Your config.sys is not properly set up

How much memory do you actually have? Can you post the contents of the config.sys file?You do not have a standalone DOS on there, you have Windows 95. You cannot reload an older of version of DOS once Windows 95 is on there. You are probably just dumping into a DOS shell from Windows 95 which has limitations, as you have found out.

If you reload DOS, then Windows 95 there is a chance IF you have DOS drivers for your sound card. You can do memory management, etc. much easier in plain DOS with Memmaker than whatever you are trying. You can also make a DOS boot disk with real DOS to use just for playing games, but your partition size may be a factor as well as the file system you are using (FAT32 vs. FAT16).




Answer to merlin question.

No as I said in my post.... 'puter was given to me with no software. I guess I'll have to find a copy of 95.

Thanks for all the help everyone!Thanks everyone all the help, but I guess I need a copy of win 95 to fix my problem.I would also look for a copy of Dos 6.2 if you want to use that as a Dos gaming machine...
Check University bookstores and or Computer Shows in your area...

patio.