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Missing WIN.COM at start up
Name: Flash2k11 Date: February 20, 2004 at 09:28:19 Pacific OS: windows 98 SE CPU/Ram: athlon 2000+ 256mb
Comment:
Yeah.
Basically the other day, I accidently knocked the power off at the wall for my PC. I restarted it, yet windows fails to load quoting a missing WIN.COM file to be the problem.
Name: ceri.sheeran Date: February 20, 2004 at 09:51:06 Pacific
Reply:
Hi,
Win 98 SE version sent by e-mail
hth
Ceri
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Response Number 2
Name: DAVEINCAPS Date: February 20, 2004 at 14:24:56 Pacific
Reply:
. . . Copy it to a blank floppy disk. Then boot the ailing computer with a bootdisk. At the a:\> prompt, remove the bootdisk and put the disk with win.com in. Type:
copy a:\win.com c:\windows
and enter. Answer Y if it asks about overwriting the existing file. When it's done, remove the disk, reboot and see if it starts normally.
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Response Number 3
Name: ceri.sheeran Date: February 21, 2004 at 03:33:19 Pacific
Reply:
DAVEINCAPS
Instructions were with the e-mail.
Ceri
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Response Number 4
Name: WhitPhil Date: February 21, 2004 at 08:52:51 Pacific
Reply:
So, out of curiousity, you were REALLY missing the file?
Ie: You just reloaded it and all is well?
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Response Number 5
Name: Flash2k11 Date: February 22, 2004 at 03:52:50 Pacific
Reply:
Yeah... Hotmail blocked the file because it deemed it permanently unsafe...
And yeah, I am missing the file. I got my comp built for me, and the guy who did it kept the windows installation disk, and he doesnt have it anymore...
If you could zip the file and send it again, I would be most appreciative.
Thabks in advance.
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Response Number 6
Name: DAVEINCAPS Date: February 22, 2004 at 12:02:40 Pacific
Reply:
Just in case Ceri doesn't resend it, I just resent it zipped.
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Response Number 7
Name: Flash2k11 Date: February 23, 2004 at 07:10:28 Pacific
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