Interesting, I have been experiencing that "hardwrite" and wondering about
that winhelp in diagnostic help.

This post is spreading out amongst many knowledgeable people... I have a
laptop that I want to recover and the EBD dosboot allowed me recover win98
even after woking with reformated drive, and a disk imaging program that
would not transfer to the HDD, but did allow an editor that enabled these
config.sys and autoexec.bat files to exececute and reconfigure system.ini
and win.ini. I also have a win98se cd upgrade disk. The cdrom is a UHCI
driven and requires a floppy diskette. It works now but in device manager
there are problem devices. Namely IRQ 9 is overburden with devices on PCI
bus and residue of a Sound Blaster pro that was used previously. Most folks
would just write it off and pitch it but I feel there is a way to ressurect
and put to some use this laptop.
"Lil' Dave" wrote in message
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"Jim" wrote in message
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What is the importance of disabling the Config.sys and Autoexec.bat
screens
in msconfig.exe? Some computers will not start without Config.sys.


Bottom line. If the PC needs something in the dos environment before
starting windows, you don't disable it. One example is expanded memory
for
some 3rd party applications that need it in windows. Such can be disabled
for troubleshooting win98 itself though.

98 has a hardwritten config.sys in that it always loads himem.sys for high
memory (extended) operation. Disabling config.sys will not prevent this
from happening.

Don't know of any example of a PC not booting if config.sys is not
present.

Dave