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- From: drice@ponder.csci.unt.edu (Keith Rice)
- Subject: Re: Problems with Command.com
- Message-ID: <drice.716097692@ponder>
- Sender: usenet@mercury.unt.edu (UNT USENet Adminstrator)
- Organization: University of North Texas
- References: <92253.204254AUTSW@ASUACAD.BITNET>
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 04:01:32 GMT
- Lines: 42
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- In <92253.204254AUTSW@ASUACAD.BITNET> <AUTSW@ASUACAD.BITNET> writes:
-
- >Oh please, oh please, can somebody HELP ME!?!?!
-
- >About a day ago I started getting some rather strange errors from my
-
- >system... Today I finally ran chkdsk and found there were some errors,
- >so I had chkdsk fix them... Anyway, now I eliminated the "sector not
- >found" error, but it's now the other error of "Invalid COMMAND, Command
- >not found, system halted..." I have no idea what it could be... I ran
- >Norton Disk Doctor and ran a full set of tests on the hard drive, and
- >found nothing... So then I thought I might have some new type of virus
- >and it might be somehow corrupting command.com. Well, I ran SCAN 95b,
- >which is the latest version out to my knowledge, and found nothing.
- >So then I ran Central Point Anti-Virus, and it found nothing, then
- >I ran Virus Safe, and still found nothing...
-
-
- >It doesn't always crash, sometimes it will let me boot the system and then
- >when I exit from a program such as FrontDoor (which I need for my BBS) it
- >says "Invalid Command, Command not found, system halted" and it specifies
- >that command.com is invalid or something along those lines... Does
- >anybody know what the heck I could have done? I honestly can't figure
- >anything out, and nobody I've talked with can come up with anything
- >either...
-
- >I can boot off of A: fine and then transfer to C: and load and use some
- >programs, but that's about it, if I get too intense in what I'm doing, that
- >error pops up and I get a system lockup again...
-
- >ANY HELP is extremely appreciated... I've about gotten to the end of my
- >rope on advice, and I thought this might hopefully be the place to inquire
- >about this strange problem...
-
- Copy COMMAND.COM from the floppy to your hard drive (just to make sure
- you have a good copy) and be sure your COMSPEC environment variable is
- set correctly.
-
- --
- D. Keith Rice -- University of North Texas -- drice@ponder.csci.unt.edu
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