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From: hirayama@suvax1.UUCP (Pat Hirayama)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: What is TM4A.SYS?
Message-ID: <953@suvax1.UUCP>
Date: 29 Jan 88 07:38:25 GMT
References: <31500002@uicsl.csl.uiuc.edu>
Organization: Seattle University, Seattle, WA.
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in article <31500002@uicsl.csl.uiuc.edu>, hychen@uicsl.csl.uiuc.edu says:
> Nf-ID: #N:uicsl.csl.uiuc.edu:31500002:000:280
> Nf-From: uicsl.csl.uiuc.edu!hychen    Jan 24 21:17:00 1988
> 
> My computer is getting weird now. When I boot the computer, I 
> got message saying  "Bad or missing TM4A.SYS", but all the 
> softwares seem to still run properly. Can anyone explain what
> TM4A.SYS is and what it is supposed to do?
> Thanks in advance.
> 

When you receive the message "Bad or missing SOMEDEVICE", it generally means
that you've got some line in your config.sys which says device=SOMEDEVICE.
It sounds like you've either deleted TM4A.SYS, or the sector on which it
resides on your disk (hard or floppy) is bad.  

I don't know what TM4A.SYS is, but if you don't know need it, just delete
that line from your config.sys