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From: c60b-bu@buddy.Berkeley.EDU (Scott "the man" Drellishak)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Boot help!!!
Summary: Stupid error needs rectification
Keywords: HELP!
Message-ID: <12512@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 17 Apr 89 03:51:52 GMT
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Reply-To: c60b-bu@buddy.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Scott "the man" Drellishak)
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Ack!  Choke!

I have made a serious error.  My harddrive was formatted with MSDOS version
3.21, and I tried to upgrade to MSDOS version 3.30 using the SYS command.
To my woe, it responded "not enough room for system files."  Thinking that
I needed to remove MSDOS.SYS and IO.SYS before the new versions could be
written, I did so.  Still, "not enough room."  Shucks, I thought, and tried
to re-SYS the harddisk with my 3.21 backup disk.  The same "not enough room"
error occurred.  Now I have a harddisk which will not boot up, and need

			HELP!

If anyone knows of a utility or DOS-trick which will let me make my harddrive
bootable again, please pass it on!  I know I can always back the sucker up
and then format/s it, but I'd rather not go through that particular hell.
Any help is appreciated.


Scott, c60b-bu