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Article #323Re: Wife is going to kill me
From: chengli wang
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 1997 00:00
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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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f8e37,49d919137faf3eec X-Google-Attributes: gidf8e37,public X-Google-Thread: 109e38,49d919137faf3eec X-Google-Attributes: gid109e38,public X-Google-Thread: 112149,49d919137faf3eec X-Google-Attributes: gid112149,public X-Google-Thread: 10a2ed,49d919137faf3eec X-Google-Attributes: gid10a2ed,public X-Google-Thread: 1045b9,49d919137faf3eec X-Google-Attributes: gid1045b9,public From: chengli@paul.rutgers.edu (chengli wang) Subject: Re: Wife is going to kill me Date: 1997/11/04 Message-ID: <63nctb$eq7@paul.rutgers.edu> X-Deja-AN: 287888760 References: <3479776b.16050497@read.news.globalnet.co.uk> <344FEBAF.6889@ix.netcom.com> <34519927.58B7@indiana.edu> <630uk7$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> Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,biz.comp.hardware,comp.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc Organization: Rutgers University LCSR Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,biz.comp.hardware,comp.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc