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re: Major Mistake
Sunday, April 22, 2007 at 7:01 am
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Posted by Linda (31 messages posted)

The fact that people are taking the time to help me with this problem is amazing and humbling; at the risk of being redundant, I again offer my sincere thanks to each of you. It is correct that I'm not "puter savy", so I will ultimately heed the suggestion to put the pc in the hands of a tech. I will however, attempt to follow the suggestions made in the more recent posts as I've done with the previous ones. RE: the status of my disks/floppy.....I'm using the boot disk that Steve suggested I make. The CDs that came with the pc (Recovery, Backup, Reinstall, etc.) are in pristine condition. When I was given this pc a year ago, I used them to erase/reinstall ME without difficulty.. For what it may be worth, here's where I'm at now: When I boot up with the boot disk, I get the "A" prompt followed by the message: "The following file is missing or corrupted: COMMAND.COM. Type the name of the Command Interpreter (e.g., C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM)". No matter WHAT I type after the "A" prompt, I get the same message, only the "file is missing or corrupted, etc" statement is followed by whatever it is I have typed. Perhaps this info may provide an "AHA!" moment to someone here, indicating a specific step to be taken. Otherwise, I'll give it to a tech.... :)

Written in response to:: re: Major Mistake (C K: Saturday, April 21, 2007 at 4:02 pm)

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re: Major Mistake (Linda: Sunday, April 22, 2007 at 7:38 am)

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Major Mistake (Linda: Thu, Apr 19, 2007, 7:21 am)

re: Major Mistake (Don: Thu, Apr 19, 2007, 4:01 pm)

re: Major Mistake (Linda: Thu, Apr 19, 2007, 5:07 pm)

re: Major Mistake (Linda: Thu, Apr 19, 2007, 5:15 pm)

re: Major Mistake (Steve: Thu, Apr 19, 2007, 7:05 pm)

re: Major Mistake (Linda: Thu, Apr 19, 2007, 7:43 pm)

re: Major Mistake (Steve: Thu, Apr 19, 2007, 7:56 pm)

re: Major Mistake (Ms. Eagle: Thu, Apr 19, 2007, 11:55 pm)

re: Major Mistake (Steve: Fri, Apr 20, 2007, 11:17 am)

re: Major Mistake (Ms. Eagle: Fri, Apr 20, 2007, 11:33 am)

re: Major Mistake (Alan Masterman: Thu, Apr 19, 2007, 8:16 pm)

re: Major Mistake (Ms. Eagle: Thu, Apr 19, 2007, 11:50 pm)

re: Major Mistake (Ed: Fri, Apr 20, 2007, 4:50 am)

re: Major Mistake (Linda: Fri, Apr 20, 2007, 10:36 am)

re: Major Mistake (Linda: Fri, Apr 20, 2007, 11:01 am)

re: Major Mistake (Linda: Fri, Apr 20, 2007, 11:23 am)

re: Major Mistake (Ms. Eagle: Fri, Apr 20, 2007, 11:44 am)

re: Major Mistake (Linda: Fri, Apr 20, 2007, 1:39 pm)

re: Major Mistake (Linda: Fri, Apr 20, 2007, 2:11 pm)

re: Major Mistake (Ms. Eagle: Fri, Apr 20, 2007, 2:25 pm)

re: Major Mistake (Linda: Fri, Apr 20, 2007, 4:43 pm)

re: Major Mistake (Ed: Sat, Apr 21, 2007, 4:52 am)

re: Major Mistake (Linda: Sat, Apr 21, 2007, 6:54 am)

re: Major Mistake (C K: Sat, Apr 21, 2007, 10:18 am)

re: Major Mistake (Ms. Eagle: Sat, Apr 21, 2007, 12:45 pm)

re: Major Mistake (C K: Sat, Apr 21, 2007, 4:02 pm)

re: Major Mistake (Linda: Sun, Apr 22, 2007, 7:01 am)

re: Major Mistake (Linda: Sun, Apr 22, 2007, 7:38 am)

re: Major Mistake (Linda: Sun, Apr 22, 2007, 7:44 am)

re: Major Mistake (Linda: Sun, Apr 22, 2007, 7:57 am)

re: Major Mistake (C K: Sun, Apr 22, 2007, 8:17 am)

re: Major Mistake (Ms. Eagle: Sun, Apr 22, 2007, 1:58 pm)

re: Major Mistake (Ms. Eagle: Sun, Apr 22, 2007, 3:44 pm)

re: Major Mistake (Linda: Sun, Apr 22, 2007, 4:18 pm)

re: Major Mistake (Linda: Sun, Apr 22, 2007, 4:27 pm)

re: Major Mistake (Ed: Sun, Apr 22, 2007, 7:00 pm)

re: PS (Ed: Sun, Apr 22, 2007, 8:14 pm)

re: FDISK (Ed: Sun, Apr 22, 2007, 8:36 pm)

re: FDISK (Linda: Mon, Apr 23, 2007, 6:38 am)

re: FDISK (Ed: Mon, Apr 23, 2007, 1:54 pm)

re: FDISK (Ed: Tue, Apr 24, 2007, 12:30 pm)

re: FDISK (Linda: Wed, Apr 25, 2007, 7:21 am)

re: FDISK (Linda: Wed, Apr 25, 2007, 12:44 pm)

re: FDISK (Linda: Wed, Apr 25, 2007, 1:42 pm)

re: FDISK (Linda: Wed, Apr 25, 2007, 2:05 pm)

re: FDISK (Linda: Wed, Apr 25, 2007, 2:22 pm)

re: FDISK (Ed: Thu, Apr 26, 2007, 12:28 pm)

re: FDISK (Ms. Eagle: Thu, Apr 26, 2007, 1:13 pm)

re: FDISK (Ed: Thu, Apr 26, 2007, 1:36 pm)

re: FDISK (Ms. Eagle: Thu, Apr 26, 2007, 2:13 pm)

re: FDISK (Linda: Thu, Apr 26, 2007, 4:28 pm)