Corrupted drive?
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Name: George71
Date: December 3, 2003 at 02:03:31 Pacific
Subject: Corrupted drive?OS: 386CPU/Ram: 20 mhz / 4 mb |
Comment: Hi everyone,
This problem appeared just after I turned the PC power off without closing all directories (I had the File Manager open and a *.exe program running, from which I could not find a way to exit).
Now, when I type WIN (or anything else) at the C prompt and hit Enter, the cursor moves back at the beginning of the line (at letter C) and nothing happens next: no Win 3.1 and the cursor freezes there.
Since then, the PC can only run Diagnostics tests for the Hard Disk and the Keyboard; these do not indicate any problems. The odd thing is that I don't know the exact version of DOS in the PC. When I use DOS 5.0 and 6.22 bootdisks I get "NTLDR is missing..." When I use a DOS 6.0 bootdisk I get "Non-system disk ... error". Has anyone encountered this problem? Any help will be appreciated.Thank's!
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Name: Petit Jean
Date: December 3, 2003 at 07:22:39 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)It looks like the computer was running Windows NT 3.1.Unless you have these diskettes you may be better off doing a clean install with the dos systems you have or the Wengier installation diskettes for ms-dos 7.1.The diskette drive may not be configured in the bios.Enter the bios to check.Good luck.
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