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I accidentally copied command.com, io.sys,and ms-dos.sys to my XP system from the windows 98 boot disk and now my computer won't start, I can only get into ms-dos. Is there anyway to get those files back to my system, like downloading them?
unfortunately, it's not that simple. you'll need to get the disk so you can do a repair install.
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Response Number 7
Name: royce Date: June 24, 2002 at 16:49:43 Pacific
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G'day JC, i have sent you a bootfile, unzip it to a floppy, then boot to that floppy it will get you into winxp. you can fix it from there, "foget about dos" try linux "microsoft is" regards
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