Mail Archives: opendos/1997/02/02/08:09:20
On Sat, 1 Feb 1997, David Poehlman wrote:
> Well, here I am back again. I'm not sure what the whole problem is now,
> but when I got a c: prompt, I ran uninstall and then rebooted. the first
> thing that happens is that the system looks for a floppy no matter what I
> do. I can't read the messages on the screen, so I'm not sure what message
> I geg. the other thing that happens, is that if I press ctrl+alt+del, my
> system just sits there after rebooting from the floppy.
> any ideas would be appreciated. it won't accept any commands and I won't
> know till later this after noon what the screen says.
> Thanks!
Sounds like uninstall didn't put MSDOS.SYS and IO.SYS back. Just
reboot off of a DOS 6.22 floppy and see if you can switch to C:. If
so, go type "A:SYS C:".
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