Re: Help required to restore IO.SYS

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From: Keith Rice
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 00:03

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In <1992Aug26.153551.25091@bnr.uk> 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.

>Thanks,

>Andy.

Try "SYS C:".

If that doesn't work at first, use a utility program to "unhide" IO.SYS and
MSDOS.SYS then delete them and try "SYS C:" again.

--
Keith
drice@ponder.csci.unt.edu

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