Help required to restore IO.SYS

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From: Andrew Hemming
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 15:35

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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.

Thanks,

Andy.

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