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From: jzl@micasa.UUCP (Jack Z. Lupic)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: DOS -- PC vs MS
Message-ID: <D1eqq6w163w@micasa.UUCP>
Date: 8 Oct 90 16:44:12 GMT
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jmann@angmar.sw.stratus.com (Jim Mann) writes:

> Recently I had to have the hard disk on my machine. When the technician
> replaced the disk, he formatted it and installed DOS 3.3 as per my request.
> However, instead of installing MS-DOS 3.3 (which is what I own, have the
> floppies for, etc.) he installed IBM PC-DOS.  I didn't notice this till
> I had lots of stuff on the disk.
> 
> Two questions:
> 
> 	1.  Does this matter?  (My machine is not an IBM, by the way.)
> 
> 	2.  Can I "fix" this by simply copying IO.SYS and MSDOS.SYS
> 		from my DOS floppies?
> 
> I'd like to avoid having to reformat the hard disk to install the correct
> version of DOS if possible.

Unhide IBMBIO.COM and IBMDOS.COM and rename them to IO.SYS and MSDOS.SYS
respectively.The order is important!!! Copy the MS DOS 3.3 files over
the top of the renamed files and all should be OK.I think you could even
do SYS C: for that matter.

Jack Lupic

Scarborough,Ontario-CANADA