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Type name of command interpreter
Name: Ken Date: July 14, 2003 at 23:00:51 Pacific OS: Windows 98 SE CPU/Ram: 233/64
Comment:
When I try to start my computer, the following message comes up: "Type name of command interpreter". I typed "SYS C:" then enter as was suggested in an earlier post and the same message comes back. Thanks for your help Ken
Name: SkipCox Date: July 15, 2003 at 00:07:12 Pacific
Reply:
You would type:
c:\command.com
if booting off your hard drive
or
a:\command.com
if booting off a floppy
Sounds like command.com has been deleted.
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Response Number 2
Name: DAVEINCAPS Date: July 15, 2003 at 00:20:15 Pacific
Reply:
You can't type 'sys c:' when it asks for the name of the command interpreter. You'd need to do as Skip suggests above.
But if you boot from a good bootdisk of the same OS version as is on your hard drive and at the a:\> prompt type:
sys c:
and enter, that will refresh the system files and copy command.com to the drive.
Sometimes that message comes up because the HD is not identified properly in cmos.
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Response Number 3
Name: C_Legend Date: July 15, 2003 at 11:44:22 Pacific
Reply:
To get it to look at C:\ for COMMAND.COM (instead of wherever it happens to be looking now), enter "SET COMSPEC=C:\COMMAND.COM". You may enter this in your C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT file if your problem persists. Hopefully, as mentioned above, doing a SYS C: will fix the problem, not when it asks for the location of the command interpreter, but as a solution when able to boot with a boot floppy and get an A: prompt.
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