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comand .com missing or corrupted
Name: marry Date: December 12, 2000 at 06:29:32 Pacific
Comment:
Hi:a friend of mine has old computer 486/66MHZ ,16Mb Ram .Runing win 3.1 ,he decide to upgrade till win 95 .He format true bios (mistake I know) and than install windows 95 ,He said everything work fine when He restarts His pcs He Received a messages that comand .com is missing or corrupted..I told Him to got a boot disk from win 98 and than boot with -it and type at the prompt :copy A:\comand.com (Enter)and Restarts the computer.. Or maybe He doesn,t use the comand format c:/s ..and that,s why He missing some important files...any suggestions.thanks.
Name: Peer Date: December 12, 2000 at 07:42:01 Pacific
Reply:
Boot off a bootdisk. Then type:
del c:\command.com
and after type:
copy c:\windows\command\command.com c:\
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Response Number 2
Name: (**) Date: December 12, 2000 at 10:36:38 Pacific
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The correct way to do it is type sys c: That will restore all the system files io.sys, msdos.sys and command.com
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Response Number 3
Name: donald heglar Date: December 12, 2000 at 11:09:22 Pacific
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when i run nortons i get 3 problems that can,t be repaired they are missing files. they are "mfcuia32.dll"maybe someone can help
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Response Number 4
Name: Peer Date: December 12, 2000 at 13:42:50 Pacific
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But if the bootdisk is a different of DOS then came with the version of windows you can frig everything up, this way you can use any bootdisk and just copy the one bad file. If your IO.sys didn't work then use a bootdisk that goes with your version.
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