TWB0@Lehigh (10/05/90)
Norton Utilities v4.5's Norton Disk Doctor (NDD) will do the job of creating space at the beginning of the bootable partition and copying the system files back in their proper places. You can also do this yourself if you know what files occupy the first few clusters on your partition...if you ran the compacter, chances are that the first subdirectory or the files in the root directory are placed first. In that case, copy them all off to a floppy, delete them from the HD, delete IBMBIO/et. al., and *then* try doing SYS C:. If still NG, find someone with Norton 4.5...if not, just do a DOS format (low-level format is unnecessary to fix the problem at hand, although there are other benefits of a low-level format when done *properly*), then restore your data... The other solution is to live with it and just make a boot disk on floppy...nothing like a hack to save the day... -Tom