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From: phil@diablo.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: puzzler
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Date: 7 Dec 89 20:32:30 GMT
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In article <9214@hoptoad.uucp> shell@hoptoad.UUCP (Shelly Culbertson) writes:
|"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".

In that case, you need to either use a more powerful deleter
(something like rm -f) or to change the attributes on the files to
allow you to delete them with the regular DOS commands. I use MKS
tools so I would do either rm -f or chmod, but I think DOS has a
command to change attributes too. 

I don't think spinrite would help you boot from the hard disk but it
is recommended as a gauge of the health of your disk. 

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