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re: corrupted registry and more
Friday, September 13, 2002 at 2:39 pm
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Posted by Steve Easton (5183 messages posted)


Boot withthe Start up disk in the floppy drive. At the A:\ prompt type: sys c: and press enter. Remove the disk and reboot.


On Friday, September 13, 2002 at 11:12 am, Lolita wrote:
>Okay, here goes: At first I had a corrupted registry which wouldn't allow me to
>even get into Windows 95. It would say "Starting Windows 95" then "Bad command
>or file name." I think that's because when I looked there was no file named windows
>under the c directory. I tried to restore by the usual means (windows\command.com)
>it but that wouldn't work. Like I said, that was at first. After a lot of tinkering
>I think I made it worse. I changed the command interpretor to a:\windows\command.com
>by accident and now I don't even see any of the files that used to be listed on my
>hard drive. When I try and boot from the hard drive it says "invalid system disk."
>I don't have my setup disks, so is there anyway to regain the files and fix a corrupted
>registry so that I can use my computer again?


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corrupted registry and more (Lolita : Friday, September 13, 2002 at 11:12 am)

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