Re: hard drive reformat HELP !!!

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From: Dan Timberlake
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 00:00

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On Sat, 13 Sep 1997 21:43:20 +0100, Sean Arrowsmith
<Support@gemsoft.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>>If you have copies of your autoexec.bat and config.sys on your hard drive now,
>>copy the relevant lines into new files with the same name on a floppy disk.
>
>It depends if your system was upgraded from 3.1x to 95 or 95 was factory
>installed.
>
>If it was factory installed then your system is unlikely to either
>autoexec.bat/config.sys as 95 will have all the settings.
>
I installed a $8000 mechanical engineering stress analysis program,
written for windows 95 on a Compaq Presario 8760 with factory
installed Win 95.  Compaq had provided an autoexec file that set the
sound card parameters and "call"ed some Compaq consumer system manager
programs.  There was no "path" command.  The stress program needed to
add its own directory to a path command, so it made a very simple path
command.  And the system would no longer run windows, or much of
anything.   "secrets of win 95" said there is a default "path" assumed
by win 95.  I  added the assumed paths to the new path command, and
all is well.  Good book.

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From: djtcz@ultranet.com (Dan Timberlake)
Subject: Re: hard drive reformat HELP !!!
Date: 1997/09/20
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