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From: pga-grd@cs.rit.edu
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Subject: Re: Need help on weird disk FAST!
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Date: 10 Apr 90 17:42:05 GMT
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In article <2778@milton.acs.washington.edu> pingpong@milton.acs.washington.edu (Jimmy) writes:
>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...[stuff deleted]

    The fact that you saw nothing when you dir'ed A: has nothing to do with
whether or not command.com is actually on that disk.  The dir command you
invoked was handled by the version of command.com sitting on your C: drive.

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