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Corrupted command.com&startup.exe
Name: Saib Date: November 25, 2000 at 20:19:34 Pacific
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I have a P.C with Win. 98, I ran a Virus scan (Norton Sys 2000), and it gave me the message: "startup.exe and command.com" are missing or corrupted"; it did not give me any ideas on how to repair them or replace them, any help on where can I get this files ?
Name: Jim Clark Date: November 25, 2000 at 20:32:21 Pacific
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Are you able to boot your computer up normally into Win 98? You need to tell us more.
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Response Number 2
Name: Clare If I Date: November 26, 2000 at 11:19:42 Pacific
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You got that message from Norton 2000?
Or you got the message as you were booting up?
Also please post the exact message you are getting!!
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Response Number 3
Name: Saib Date: November 26, 2000 at 18:29:08 Pacific
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O.K here it is: I bought Norton SystemWorks2000, the box comes with 3 Emergency disks, according to the book I can check my P.C for any Viruses before I do the installation by booting up from disk#1 wich gives me a menu from which I can select "Antivirus",(all this from the DOS prompt), after it scanned the C:\ drive (8 min maybe)I received the message :command.com file is missing or corrupt (and then on the line below) startup.exe is missing or corrupt; after that it prompted me to my A:\ drive and that was it, I reestarted the P.C and went on with my business. The reason I ran the test was because mu P.C was acting "weird"(slow performance,unknown files placed in "My Documents" folders, mouse pointer acting strange, and too many freezing stages) So.......Poltergeist or just a piece of S.... system?
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Response Number 4
Name: fred6008 Date: November 26, 2000 at 23:18:14 Pacific
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Copy command.com from your startup disk to C:\ and see if it is still corrupt?
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