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Article #1015Re: Help required to restore IO.SYS
From: Jon Freivald
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 02:03
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 02:03
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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! ============================================================================= Jon Freivald ( jaflrn!jaf@uunet.UU.NET ) Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it. =============================================================================
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!utoday!jaflrn!jaf From: Jon Freivald <jaf@jaflrn.UUCP> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer Subject: Re: Help required to restore IO.SYS Message-ID: <q927PB3w164w@jaflrn.UUCP> Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 22:03:37 EDT References: <1992Aug26.153551.25091@bnr.uk> Organization: The Wizzard's Cave, East Meadow, NY Lines: 22