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Subject: Re: DPMI Problems - Help!!
Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 11:21:25 +0300
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arizvi wrote:
>
> Correction: The actual error string is
>
> Invalid media type reading drive C:
> Abort, Retry, Ignore?
>
> I have verified that it is not my code which accesses the hard drives.

Does the computer boot from floppy or from HD?  If it boots from HD, 
then the one responsible for accessing C: is DOS.  It has to read 
COMMAND.COM (or whatever shell you DOS uses).  You can work around this 
by setting the COMSPEC env. variable to A:\COMMAND.COM (you have to copy 
this file to A: of course).

(In any event, if the HD is broken, you shouldn't be able to boot from 
it in the first place.)