Xref: utzoo comp.os.msdos.misc:352 comp.os.msdos.programmer:1209 comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc:2177 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!dendrite.cis.ohio-state.edu!pollack From: pollack@dendrite.cis.ohio-state.edu (Jordan B Pollack) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: help: peculiar msdos 3.3 crash Message-ID: Date: 1 Oct 90 03:51:36 GMT Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: pollack@cis.ohio-state.edu Followup-To: comp.os.msdos.misc Distribution: comp Organization: Ohio State Computer Science Lines: 19 After some software anomolies, I decided to run a disk optimizer (fastrax), which had me run chkdsk first. It found problems in a hidden file ibmbio.com among others, and truncated it. Not knowing the significance at the time, I compacted away. Later, when my machine wouldn't boot, I deleted and copied both ibmbio.com and ibmdos.com several ways, ("sys" didnt work), but cannnot solve it and I suspect some directory tinkering might. I am runing msdos 3.30 on a zenith supersport286e. I know I can fully back up my disk, then reformat it, and run install and sys, but that will take many hours and floppies. Do any experts know a shorter way? Thanks in advance. -- Jordan Pollack Assistant Professor CIS Dept/OSU Laboratory for AI Research 2036 Neil Ave Email: pollack@cis.ohio-state.edu Columbus, OH 43210 Fax/Phone: (614) 292-4890