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vjp2 DOT at AT at DOT BioStrategist DOT dot DOT dot DOT com writes:

 >  I had it running and then I did some repartitioning
 > and it now doesn't start

Was it that hard to get running in your environment?  If you are right
that repartitioning was the cause, that would presumably be due to
corruption of some needed file.  It could also be that a whole file
got lost somewhere it can be recovered, but that's not something I
recommend for anybody, it's painful.  And just because it starts, that
doesn't guarantee other files that only get used later are uncorrupted.

In such cases, reinstalling is time-consuming but straightforward.

 > I may have changed config.sys or autoexec options
 > cwsdpmi is in emacs\bin

To diagnose, we would need error messages from Emacs or DOS if there
were any, and also the content of the files you suspect were changed.

 > I feel so stupid

Please don't.  I mean it's a natural feeling, but computers do that to
all of us sooner or later, and more than once.  Learn to get over it
quickly. :-)

Steve