Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!watdcsu!dmurdoch
From: dmurdoch@watdcsu.waterloo.edu ( D. Murdoch - Statistics )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: SYS command
Message-ID: <5150@watdcsu.waterloo.edu>
Date: 13 Oct 88 13:56:22 GMT
Reply-To: dmurdoch@watdcsu.waterloo.edu ( D. Murdoch - Statistics )
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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Yesterday I accidentally wiped out the system files (IO.SYS and MSDOS.SYS)
for MSDOS 3.2 on my hard disk.  Figuring that the space for them was still
there, I attempted to use the SYS command to transfer the system from a 
floppy onto the hard disk, but got the message that there wasn't enough space
for the system.  After that, I tried all kinds of things to give extra space
in the first few hundred clusters on the disk, in the first few 
root directory entries, and so on, all with no
success.  I had to resort to manually moving the files onto the disk
and hoping to get them in the right spots.  I was lucky; it worked.

My questions are these:  What does SYS look at to determine if there is
space for the system?  Does it vary from version to version of DOS?

Please email the responses; I'll summarize and post.

Duncan Murdoch