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From: pingpong@milton.acs.washington.edu (Jimmy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Need help on weird disk FAST!
Message-ID: <2778@milton.acs.washington.edu>
Date: 10 Apr 90 05:43:58 GMT
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Organization: Univ of Washington, Seattle
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I hava a weird 5.25 floppy disk.
When I try to boot it from Drive A, it gives me two error messages :

   1. Incorrect DOS version number
   2. Command interpreter not found.

So I boot from my C drive, and do a DIR on drive A. NOTHING. That explains
error (2) since command.com is not there. Then I do a CHKDSK on Drive A and
it said '3 hidden files.' Then I used DEBUG A:IBMDOS.COM assuming that is
one of the hidden files. But nope, FILE NOT FOUND. Now, finally, I tried
SYS A:, but it gave me 'insufficient space for system...'

Could anyone explain error (1) to me? 
How could I find out the DOS version on my floppy disk?
Why doesn't SYS work on my floppy disk?

Any help is deeply appreicated.
-Jimmy.