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haeb@pc60.demon.co.uk (Harry Broomhall) wrote:

>On Thu, 11 Dec 1997 00:47:22 GMT, minister@sirius.com (Bill R. Adams)
>wrote:

>>While purging old files in windows programs, I deleted my DoubleSpace
>>files [from a 386 PC, DOS 6, Windows 3.1] only to discover I made a mistake, apparently wiping out some
>>system files that I need to run DOS.  Even with a boot disk, the
>>machine can only read the A: drive and cannot find the C: drive at
>>all, much less get me to Windows. I've received several error messages
>>when rebooting or turning the machine on.  I need an interpretation
>>and, of course, some direction on correcting the problem. 
>>
>>Error messages I have received are:
>>* Non system disk on disk error
>>* Invalid drive in search path
>>* Invalid drive specifications
>>

>    How did you remove the double space files?   ATTRIB everything in
>the root to see it, and del *.*? 
> If so, does your boot disk have
>'SYS.COM' on it?  Or do you have the DOS distribution disks to get it?

No. I deleted the files from File Manager in Windows.  

>   If you can find SYS.COM, put it on your boot disk and use it to
>boot.  Then type sys c:    You  may then find you have got your
>harddrive back.

>  If you ATTRIB files in the root directory there are two files you
>*mustn't* touch - IO.SYS and MSDOS.SYS.  They are required for the
>machine to boot.  They are, in effect, MS-DOS!

These are on my boot disk.

>>(Errors after using boot disk read)
>>- HMA not available: Loading DOS low
>>- Several Files not found
>>- Bad or missing:
>> * HIMEM.SYS  Error in Config.sys Line 1
>> * EMM386. EXE ...........................Line 2
>> * DBLSPACE.SYS.........................Line 10
>> * Winwave\DSP16.SYS................Line 11
>>
>   What happens with the boot floppy is a different matter.  Basicaly
>I suspect that you have copied config.sys and autoexec.bat from the
>harddrive without thinking what would happen if you no longer had a
>harddrive.
>   You need to edit these files, and put more files on the floppy, to
>give you minimum capability if you just boot the floppy.
>   You will need HIMEM.SYS, EMM386.EXE, FORMAT, SYS, FDISK at the very
>least.  Also the driver for your CDrom if you have one, along with
>MSCDEX.  To make the keyboard livable you will need KEYB and its
>datafiles.>   Regards,  Harry.

I copied all these files, which I found on my Win95 machine, to the
boot disk, then tried to reboot the 386, but to no avail. It will boot
as far as the providing information on AMIBIOS CONFIGURATION and then
it freezes. What am I missing? - Bill



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