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- From: Jon Freivald <jaf@jaflrn.UUCP>
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
- Subject: Re: Help required to restore IO.SYS
- Message-ID: <q927PB3w164w@jaflrn.UUCP>
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 22:03:37 EDT
- References: <1992Aug26.153551.25091@bnr.uk>
- Organization: The Wizzard's Cave, East Meadow, NY
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- ahemming@bmdhh116.bnr.ca (Andrew Hemming) writes:
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- > 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.
-
- Eek! Please don't -- use SYS C: instead!
-
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