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From: marcus@intermec.UUCP (Marcus Albro)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Subject: Re: KILLER PROBLEM from HELL... *PLEASE* help!!
Message-ID: <1285@intermec.UUCP>
Date: 10 Jul 90 15:23:41 GMT
References: <90185.162114JCR108@psuvm.psu.edu+ <90186.181632GILLA@QUCDN.BITNET+ <1990Jul6.160028.7039@sj.ate.slb.com+ <693@marvin.moncam.co.uk>
Reply-To: marcus@icarus (Marcus Albro)
Organization: Intermec Corporation, Everett WA
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In article <693@marvin.moncam.co.uk> emmo@moncam.co.uk (Dave Emmerson) writes:
>+ In article <90186.181632GILLA@QUCDN.BITNET+ GILLA@QUCDN.QueensU.CA (Arnold G. Gill) writes:
>+ +
>+ +     I guess this lock-out thing is software, eh?  Then the solution may be as
>+ +simple as opening up your computer, disconnecting your harddrive (just pull
>+ +the power plug out), and then booting from a floppy.  Once that is donw,
>+ +reconnect your harddisk and erase to your heart's content.  The only
>+ +difficulty that I can see is that it might not be a good idea to plug in the
>+ +harddrive while the power is running - but I can't think of a way around that.
>+ 
I have had this happe a couple of times to people I have tried to help over the
phone.  The problem boils down to having copied a new version of the file
'COMMAND.COM' over the original on the disk.  Since the operating system 
requires that the COMMAND.COM version match that of the two hidden files in th
root drive, the system will no longer boot.  I never copy a floppy to the root
directory of C: anymore.  If the floppy has a copy of COMMAND.COM and the 
command COPY A:*.* is used, then the COMMAND.COM on the hard disk is replaced. 

To fix:
1) Find your original copy of COMMAND.COM and copy it back onto the C: drive
   root directory. (You will have to boot to A: first).

2) Reinstall your operating system from scratch.

Hope this helps you.  There are other methods to fix using Norton, but become
too involved for this media.

Marcus Albro.

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