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Monday, September 9, 2002 at 9:44 pm
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Posted by Jim (59 messages posted)

If the A:\ prompt is appearing then likely the machine was booted from a dos boot 
disk. Depending on the configuration of the boot disk windows may or may not load 
when you change to the drive (e.g., C:) where it is installed and the directory (e.g., 
\WINDOWS) and type the WIN command.
The boot disk MUST have an MSDOS.SYS file that points to the exact location of the 
windows directory. If the msdos.sys file just has one line like ;SYS then it will 
not work.

Dodgy stuff - and that's all assuming Windows is actually present on the hard disk!

On Monday, September 9, 2002 at 7:22 pm, bello wrote:
> pending that you are using a non NT OS (such as win95, win98, winME) yes.. to access 
>windows you must get yourself into the c:/windows/ folder.. then type: win

-bello

Written in response to:: re: what should I type At The A:\ Promt So THat Windows 95 will start (bello: Monday, September 9, 2002 at 7:22 pm)

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what should I type At The A:\ Promt So THat Windows 95 will start (jason Fowler: Sun, Sep 8, 2002, 3:18 pm)

re: what should I type At The A:\ Promt So THat Windows 95 will start (MikeS: Sun, Sep 8, 2002, 3:40 pm)

re: what should I type At The A:\ Promt So THat Windows 95 will start (bello: Sun, Sep 8, 2002, 9:05 pm)

re: what should I type At The A:\ Promt So THat Windows 95 will start (Bin: Mon, Sep 9, 2002, 1:27 pm)

re: what should I type At The A:\ Promt So THat Windows 95 will start (bello: Mon, Sep 9, 2002, 7:22 pm)

depends... (Jim: Mon, Sep 9, 2002, 9:44 pm)

re: what should I type At The A:\ Promt So THat Windows 95 will start (E.Kiely: Sat, Dec 11, 2004, 12:49 pm)

re: what should I type At The A:\ Promt So THat Windows 95 will start (Tom Powell: Fri, Jun 16, 2006, 11:18 am)

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