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missing/corrupted command.com
Name: milesnuk Date: March 29, 2003 at 09:05:03 Pacific OS: win98 se CPU/Ram: 32
Comment:
Hi I am trying to install win98 se on my laptop I have formated my Thinkpad laptop without floppy drive, and when i put in my windows 98 SE boot disk is says THE FOLLOWING FILE IS MISSING OR CORRUPTED: COMMAND.COM TYPE IN THE NAME OF THE COMMAND INTERPRETER (EG., C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM what should i do?
Name: Roy Hunter Date: March 29, 2003 at 09:36:11 Pacific
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try SYS C:
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Response Number 2
Name: milesnuk Date: March 29, 2003 at 10:04:50 Pacific
Reply:
no it didnt work Please help me! pls!
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Response Number 3
Name: smithdk Date: March 29, 2003 at 10:19:23 Pacific
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In your post you said you don't have a floppy drive but then use a boot disk. Does this laptop have a floppy drive?
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Response Number 4
Name: milesnuk Date: March 29, 2003 at 10:35:36 Pacific
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yes what i ment is that my laptop only has a floppy drive!
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Response Number 5
Name: smithdk Date: March 29, 2003 at 10:47:54 Pacific
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Are you using a known good boot disk? Also make sure your floppy drive is the first boot device in your BIOS.
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Response Number 6
Name: jonajsil Date: March 29, 2003 at 13:27:14 Pacific
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Do 1-4 on the computer you are reading this with: 1. Go to www.bootdisk.com 2. Download a Win98SE bootdisk file. 3. Format the disk that doesn't work (don't 'make an MS/DOS system disk' or whatever) 4. Run the downloaded file with the disk in the drive, it'll make it a system disk 5. Start the laptop and go into the BIOS and make sure that it is set to boot from the floppy first of all, and then second, 'Hard drive' or 'IDE-0' or similar. If you can't change this don't worry, but if you can, you must. 6. Start the laptop with the floppy in the drive. 7. When you see 'A:\>' type
sys c:
8. When it's done take the floppy out and reboot. 9. You should see 'C:\>'. That means success! 10. Put the first 98SE floppy in and install Windows.
Hope this is what you need to know. Let us know how it goes. Jonathan
ok This simple altought command.com i s corrupted you can still type in command's bu the will need the proper path example c:\windows\win.com instead of win
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