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From: shell@hoptoad.uucp (Shelly Culbertson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: re: puzzler
Message-ID: <9214@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 7 Dec 89 07:48:21 GMT
Reply-To: shell@hoptoad.UUCP (Shelly Culbertson)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Nebula Consultants in San Francisco
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I first posted yesterday about my machine's refusal to boot from the hard
disk.  This is a continuation of that situation.

First of all, I'd like to thank everyone who sent me mail in an attempt
to help.  I've received some very well thought out, complex and articulate
replies.  I'm really touched by the way busy net-reading professionals are
willing to go out of their way to give advice to a novice who all of them
(except for one) have never met.  I mean this sincerely!

The most common advice I received was, boot with the DOS disk in drive A,
then run "sys c:".  The problem with this is, I get an error message:
"No room for system on destination drive".  All of my old system files
are still there on the hard disk, and it won't let me delete them prior
to trying to replace them: "Error: io.sys (or msdos.sys) is read only".

Sometimes now instead of the cursor just hanging forlornly in space when I 
attempt to boot from drive C, I get the message "non-system disk or disk
error".  I guess this is an improvement: at least it's telling me
*something*.

I guess I'll try to find Spinrite next, as someone suggested.
Any other ideas?
Thanks again.

Shelly Culbertson	shell@hoptoad.UUCP 	voice: (707) 839-2265

"Fax me a donut!" -- Phil Spector

On second thought, don't fax me that donut...might get my modem-to-fax
connections all sticky....