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Re: Wife is going to kill me

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From: chengli wang
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 1997 00:00
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try fdisk /mbr to restore the master boot record, also make sure your
primary DOS partition is active


: > > However as soon as I take the emergency disk out of the A drive and
: > > power on I get the bios showing 32 megs of ram and then showing 1 fixed
: > > HD, 1 floppy drive, 1 Parrallel port, 1 serial port like it should, but
: > > then it stops the screen is blank with a little blinking cursor in the
: > > upper left of the screen.  I have to ctl-alt-del and insert the
: > > emergency disk and then it works.
: > >
: > > Can anyone help me out before the wife gets home so I can get this
: > > system working again.  All info would be appreciated.  I.   I will be
: > > monitoring the NG and Email very closely hoping some knowledgeable
: > > person can get me out of this fix.
: > >
: > > Thanks in advance.  Don
: > 
: > 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.
: -- 
: Cheers  :-)

: Bob
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From: chengli@paul.rutgers.edu (chengli wang)
Subject: Re: Wife is going to kill me
Date: 1997/11/04
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