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Win95 Boots to DOS Shell
Name: Leon Date: March 5, 2002 at 08:51:59 Pacific
Comment:
While in the process of repairing a friend's computer I came across a problem that I've never encountered before. I did fix the original problem but now at boot-up the machine boots properly to Win95 but during the process drops to DOS. I do the exit command and everything is fine. I've checked the startup folder, autoexec.bat, win.ini, did a quick look at the registry for anything unusual and found nothing to cause this. Any ideas?? Thanks so much!
Summary: Joseph, you can't use explorer if it only boots to DOS. Use the bootdisk and type "attrib -r -s -h c:\msdos.sys" then "del c:\msdos.sys" then using DOS edit make a file called c:\msdos.sys that conta...
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