🚀 go-pugleaf

Newz@inf-eden.demon.co.ux (Chris Kennington - newshound) wrote:

>In article <66poq7$kn$1@news1.sirius.com>
>           minister@sirius.com "Bill R. Adams" writes:

>"Well yes things here look a little gloomy. I did misspeak, however,
>"about the C Drive.  I can only access the C: prompt with the reboot
>"disk (which constains msdos.sys, Io.sys, confi.sys, autoexec.bat,
>"command.com, and dblspace.bin).
>"
>"However it is dead.  This message displays when I search for DIR:
>""Volume in Drive C has no Label. Volume Serial Number is 3465-13EA".
>"When I attempt to access windows (typing Win at the C prompt), I get
>"this message: "bad command or file name". Sorry for the confusion. - b

>Bill:

>    This gloomy post preceded mine of 12th Dec.  But to be quite
> clear: Yes, I do mean that being able to get the quoted answer
> from the DOS command 'DIR C:' after booting from the floppy is
> *highly* significant.  Repeating, it means that your disk itself
> is quite OK - you've just lost or mislaid some files.  Please
> post what 'DIR C: /a' (after booting from the floppy) gives as a
> result.  If it should so happen that it shows a lot of files
> which 'DIR C:' alone did not, then there is considerable hope.
> This is because M$oft choose to "hide" a lot of their most
> interesting files.
>                                    Chris K.
>-- 

I received nothing at first with DIR C: /a.  I think I'm going to Plan
B, that is reload the DOS files, since many of my lost files are on
backups.  However, DOS Setup keeps instructing me to load the disk in
the 3.5" Drive A, which I cannot do since the files are on Real
Floppies (the 5"x5" variety), which fit my Drive B.  How do I convince
Setup to load from Drive B? Thanks for all your help. - b
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