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re: Im in the command prompt
Sunday, July 1, 2007 at 8:44 pm
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Posted by gewg_ (4444 messages posted)


|I am in the command prompt[...]but none of the useful commands are working.
|i can DIR C: /p /o and find the contents of my hard drive,
|yet i can't seem to access any of these.
| kris_l
|
Describe "access".

|I can't even open a new directory prompt (like C:\windows\)
|
Posting EXACT commands and EXACT error messages is useful.
Here's one to start:
http://www.google.com/search?q=DOS-CD-Command+computerhope
Alternately:
cache 
of 
http://www.heyessay.net/viewpaper/Technology/9331/Running_Executables_Within_Scripts.html
+include.the.PATH+as.part.of.the.command.line


|yet it shows that its there... so where does this leave me? bad HDD?
|
Not if DIR is working.
I'll bet you're entering gibberish at the command prompt.
Prove me wrong.  As you math teacher said: Show your work.




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Im in the command prompt (kris_l: Sunday, July 1, 2007 at 6:04 pm)

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*re: Windows fails to load, stuck on "splash" screen (bob wells: Sun, Jul 1, 2007, 6:03 pm)
-Im in the command prompt (kris_l: Sun, Jul 1, 2007, 6:04 pm)
*re: Im in the command prompt (gewg_: Sun, Jul 1, 2007, 8:44 pm)
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