Re: Help required to restore IO.SYS

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From: Joe Trott
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 17:05

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Jon Freivald <jaf@jaflrn.UUCP> writes:

>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!

And afterwards, unless you know why your system has been crashing, I'd
_strongly_ recommend that you virus-scan your disk.  Just in case...

(We get "STONED" here quite frequently)

-JTT

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From: joet@dcatlas.dot.gov (Joe Trott)
Subject: Re: Help required to restore IO.SYS
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