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Bad or missing C:\EMM386.EXE
Name: Frank Pirchmoser Date: January 29, 2002 at 20:27:47 Pacific
Comment:
Hello; I tried to surrect my old 486DX2-66 with windows 3.11 and Dos 6.21 with double speed (2X) CD drive. As I had lost the CD drive once again I played with the Config.sys file which corrected the fault always previously. This time however the machine did not boot up fully and displayed the two messages; Bad or Missing C:\EMM386.exe Error in Config.Sys line 3. I tried to reboot with all my boot disk which worked previously but not any more. The same occors with every reboot. Thanking you for your attention.
Name: jim Date: January 30, 2002 at 01:44:38 Pacific
Reply:
If your running dos, goto the dos folder and copy it to c:\
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Response Number 2
Name: pope Date: February 1, 2002 at 11:23:21 Pacific
Reply:
Check your C;\DOs or C:\Windows DIRECTORIES (Folders are in Windows 9x!) and rename file location in Config.Sys to point to where you found it. BAD IDEA to move DOS files into the Root directory!
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Response Number 3
Name: Frank Pirchmoser Date: February 3, 2002 at 16:59:10 Pacific
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Thank you jim and pope for your replys but they do not solve my problem. The PC does not fully reboot; I do not get a full cursor to get into DOS for file management. Any other ideas ? Frank
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Response Number 4
Name: Hmmm Date: February 7, 2002 at 23:19:12 Pacific
Reply:
Sounds suspiciously like a boot sector virius infection.
Create a clean boot disk from bootdisk.com. Make sure it is write protected. then reboot th 486 with this disk. See if you can access c:. If you can type fdisk/mbr.
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