re: Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?' Friday, November 7, 2003 at 8:35 pm Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by john (2 messages posted) It is not letting me delete config.sys or autoexec.bat. it is saying they are protected. How do i delete them!! On Friday, November 7, 2003 at 8:06 pm, john wrote: >I'm having a problem with partition magic. I'm trying to delete the partition (i >only have one in fat32 format as my hd isn't v big) But i get the error 993: Partition >contains open files. Use op. system check utility. . I then get error 58: Unable >to write boot sector. Virus protection software may be running. > >I've tried doing a scandisk to fix the errors. But it still doesn't let me. Do i >need to delete config.sys and autoexec.bat. If so how do i do this in dos: >"del autoexec.bat" and "del config.sys" in the c directory? > >Thanks > > Written in response to: re: Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?' (john: Friday, November 7, 2003 at 8:06 pm) Responses to this message: re: Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?' (kkk: Sunday, October 24, 2004 at 9:52 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?' (Mel Walters: Thu, Oct 24, 2002, 4:23 am) re: Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?' (GM: Thu, Oct 24, 2002, 4:39 am) re: Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?' (Mel Walters: Thu, Oct 24, 2002, 6:11 pm) re: Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?' (Oh_dear: Thu, Oct 24, 2002, 7:48 pm) re: Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?' (gossy: Thu, Oct 24, 2002, 5:27 am) re: Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?' (Paul D: Thu, Oct 24, 2002, 10:50 am) re: Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?' (Mel Walters: Thu, Oct 24, 2002, 2:31 pm) re: Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?' (Paul D: Fri, Oct 25, 2002, 12:59 am) re: Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?' (john: Fri, Nov 7, 2003, 8:06 pm) re: Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?' (john: Fri, Nov 7, 2003, 8:35 pm) re: Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?' (kkk: Sun, Oct 24, 2004, 9:52 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum