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Article #308Re: Wife is going to kill me
From: Chris McEwen
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 1997 00:00
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 1997 00:00
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Bob Shipley wrote: ] ] Jim Lafleur wrote: ] > ] > This is a software problem, no big problem, try this: ] > 1) the emergency disk sounds like a win95 not win3.x ] > 2) you need to add system files to c: drive ] > 3) put your emergency rescue disk in a: ] > 4) at prompt type sys c: ] > 5) then reinstall win95 ] ] The above is sound advice. It sounds like you didn't install the system ] files. The next time you format a hard drive use this command: ] ] FORMAT C: /S ] ] This will format the drive and install your system files, making the ] drive bootable. Once this is done you will need to install your DOS ] cd-rom drivers if you wish to install Win 95 from a cd. Are you two gentlemen certain the fellow intended to loose all his wife's data on that partition? From reading his article, I'd say he formatted the drive in a desparate attempt to regain control. Any writes to that partition will close the door on recovering the old data. --Chris McEwen reply to: Socrates Press socrates@sprintmail.com
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f8e37,49d919137faf3eec X-Google-Attributes: gidf8e37,public X-Google-Thread: 112149,49d919137faf3eec X-Google-Attributes: gid112149,public X-Google-Thread: 109e38,49d919137faf3eec X-Google-Attributes: gid109e38,public X-Google-Thread: 1045b9,49d919137faf3eec X-Google-Attributes: gid1045b9,public X-Google-Thread: 10a2ed,49d919137faf3eec X-Google-Attributes: gid10a2ed,public From: Chris McEwen <lmcewen@hotmail.com> Subject: Re: Wife is going to kill me Date: 1997/11/03 Message-ID: <345E2747.4169@hotmail.com> X-Deja-AN: 287749259 References: <3479776b.16050497@read.news.globalnet.co.uk> <344FEBAF.6889@ix.netcom.com> <34519927.58B7@indiana.edu> <630uk7$d2e$1@siesta.packet.net> <631rae$588@bgtnsc01.worldnet.att.net> <6345ni$8f1$1@dove.qut.edu.au> <34569f01.3945771@news.v-wave.com> <63757v$dt6@bgtnsc01.worldnet.att.net> <63gvrp$h0t$1@news1.epix.net> <345CA2FE.F88F3734@lv.rmci.net> <63l0uc$7q@server4.softdisk.com> <345E1668.6557@erols.com> Organization: Socrates Press Reply-To: lmcewen@hotmail.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,biz.comp.hardware,comp.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc