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- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
- Path: sparky!uunet!dcatlas!joet
- From: joet@dcatlas.dot.gov (Joe Trott)
- Subject: Re: Help required to restore IO.SYS
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.170553.18798@dcatlas.dot.gov>
- Organization: U.S Dept. of Transportation
- References: <1992Aug26.153551.25091@bnr.uk> <q927PB3w164w@jaflrn.UUCP>
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 17:05:53 GMT
- Lines: 27
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- Jon Freivald <jaf@jaflrn.UUCP> writes:
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- >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.
-
- >Eek! Please don't -- use SYS C: instead!
-
- And afterwards, unless you know why your system has been crashing, I'd
- _strongly_ recommend that you virus-scan your disk. Just in case...
-
- (We get "STONED" here quite frequently)
-
- -JTT
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