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- From: drice@ponder.csci.unt.edu (Keith Rice)
- Subject: Re: Help required to restore IO.SYS
- Message-ID: <drice.714873818@ponder>
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- Organization: University of North Texas
- References: <1992Aug26.153551.25091@bnr.uk>
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 00:03:38 GMT
- Lines: 29
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- In <1992Aug26.153551.25091@bnr.uk> ahemming@bmdhh116.bnr.ca (Andrew Hemming) writes:
-
- >Hi,
- > About six months ago I upgraded to DOS 5, all worked fine until
- >a couple of months ago. There was I debugging my final year University
- >project when I started to have problems. Every now and again, when I
- >ran my program, it would crash, leaving several files open and corrupt.
- >Only being a poor student I could not afford such luxuries as Norton Utils
- >etc, so I used good old CHKDSK -f to clear up the mess. This worked fine
- >for several weeks until on day CHKDSK decided to "fix" my IO.SYS file. UGH!
- >I am now unable to boot from my hard disk. I can however still access it
- >by booting from diskette. This is not ideal!
-
- > Does anyone out there know how I can restore my copy of IO.SYS other than
- >FORMAT C: /S. I have tried the obviouse.
-
- >Thanks,
-
- >Andy.
-
- Try "SYS C:".
-
- If that doesn't work at first, use a utility program to "unhide" IO.SYS and
- MSDOS.SYS then delete them and try "SYS C:" again.
-
- --
- Keith
- drice@ponder.csci.unt.edu
-
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