[comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc] Missing command.com file

millia@athena.cs.uga.edu (David W. Millians) (03/04/91)

Yesterday, my hard drive would not park; a bit unusual, I thought, but nothing to
worry about. It turned out not to be the case; this morning, I turned it on, and
got a string of letters filling up the screen and causing it to scroll the   
screen. After a couple of reboots, it now pops up with the message, if I 
remember correctly, 'bad command file.' I work with PC's everyday, but I've 
never had this happen before. It won't even recognize the existence of the hard
drive when I boot up from a floppy. What do I do now?
Specs: 8086 Gateway 2000 clone, Seagate 30 meg drive. Dos 3.3
Thanks In Advance. E-mail replies, please; I DO read the newsgroup, but I'll
summarize later for bandwidth purposes. 
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David W. Millians     millia@athena.cs.uga.edu     All I say is untrue.
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