gautier@LOGNET2.AF.MIL (SrA Richard A. Gautier) (06/14/89)
I am a victim of bad information...
I had v3.20 DOS in my Hard Drive, (when I got it from someone else)
I decided to change it to v3.21, easy, right? WRONG!!!
I copied over COMMAND.COM, and the two hidden files IBMBIO.SYS
and MSDOS.SYS, or whatever they are... replacing the old ones
with the new ones..
Then I tried to boot the computer from the hard disk...Buzz...Wrong
answer./..Then I come to find out that whoever owned the computer before me did not
have back-ups of MS-DOS v3.20, nor did he have any idea where the
originals are...
So what the HECK do I do now?????
HELP ME PLEASE..By mail if you can..
Thanks, SrA Gautier, Osan AB, Koreatmoore@LOGNET2.AF.MIL (MSgt Terry Lee Moore) (06/14/89)
Rich, You have to first get booted up. 3.3 or otherwise, use the floppy disk to boot up in 3.3. Then run 3.3s backup utility on the whole disk. Then reformat the hummer. You'll have problems untiol you do. I had a similar problem at coronet warrior III and this fixed it. 'course, I have very little data on the hard disk when this happened. All of it was easily recoverable, so I jsut formated the hard drive with 3.3 and pressed. Be careful. Do you know how to <CTRL>-<ALT>-<INS> as opposed to <CTRL>-<ALT>-<DEL>? That will call the monitor program. give the monitor the "bf0" command to "Boot Floppy 0" which is the A: drive. Then you use the thing like a floppy only system until you get the hard drive fixed. If you're real ambitious, you could also set the path for the hard drive DOS for the backup, but you have to fix that again anyway when you reformat the hard drive. So it's best to just work off the floppy until you get the hard drive reformated and DOS set up. Terry