From here, your problem would seem to be far more likely associated with a
'failing hard drive' than with memory issues. WinMe (in both Normal and Safe
Mode) is trying to load corrupted or damaged files from your hard drive
(HDD) and consequently, failing to boot.

I would suggest you run scandisk c: from your (emergency) startup floppy
disk, but beware!! DO NOT let it do a surface scan (at this stage) Instead,
just take a note of any/all error reports and report back here. If your HDD
is failing, you may wish to try to recover your (personal) data before you
try booting into WinMe again. Somebody will advise you of the next steps.

BTW - You cannot boot into WinMe directly from the startup floppy disk, it
can only be done from the main system (failing?) HDD (Probably your C:
drive).

Mart



"Chesapeake Chum" Chesapeake wrote in
message ...
I decided to boot my Windows Me from the start-up disk because it would not
boot normally or in Safe Mode but instead displayed the error message:"An
I/O
subsystem driver failed to load. Either a file in the .\iosubsystem
subdirectory is corrupt or the system is low on memory. Replace the disk
and
then press any key." The system has lots of memory available so I decided
to
boot from the start up disk and select the option to boot with access to
the
CD drive where I had my Windows ME CD. I thought the corrupted file could
be
replaced from the original Windows ME CD. Instead, I got another error
message saying cannot find sector Drive C. The option to Retry didn't work
so
I selected Abort and after that didn't work I selected Fail which, of
course,
didn't help. Any suggestions for what I might do next to get my system to
boot up? When I try to boot normally it often gets as far as press F3 for
the
configuration utility. But when I press F3 nothing happens.