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re: Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?'
Friday, November 7, 2003 at 8:35 pm
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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)

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re: Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?' (kkk: Sunday, October 24, 2004 at 9:52 pm)

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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)

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