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Solve : Restoring MSDOS.SYS? |
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Answer» Accidentally copied the msdos.sys file from the windows 98 start up disk to my c: drive root dir. So naturally windows won't complete BOOTING. I've tried replacing the msdos.sys with a backup copy but I can't delete the current one. Tried attrib to change the attributes but it won't let me. Any thoughts?http://www.helpdesk.umd.edu/topics/troubleshooting/os/windows_9x/551/Find someone with a working copy of W98 and simply CLONE their MSDOS.SYS file, it's a lot easier than wading through all those parameters and attempting to recreate it from scratch. Thanks for the inputs all, but the underlying problem was editing and/or deleting the msdos.sys file in DOS. SINCE I it owuld not boot to windows I had to use DOS to correct the file. I tried changing the attribute from READ only but it wouldn't let me. I finally took the brute force method and put the disk in another windows machine as a secondary drive and replaced the file through windows on the other machine. |
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