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| Thread ID: 50443 | 2004-10-20 21:05:00 | Trouble with emergency boot disk Win 95b | Randolf (75) | Press F1 |
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| 283125 | 2004-10-22 03:58:00 | But let's start again :) You can make a basic boot disk from within Windows by right clicking the A drive in My Computer and then select Copy System Files Only. This does the same as the format a: /s command, you have to put a floppy in the drive though. Then on the floppy is placed command.com and IO.sys and MSDOS.sys, but the last two files are "hidden" you cant see them with a 'dir' command. Oh yes, drvspace.bin is also put onto the floppy in case your hard drive is compressed. If it isnt then drvspace.bin can be deleted to make even more room on the floppy. Then you copy the ERU files from the Win95 CD which are in \Other\Misc\Eru to the c:\Windows folder. Drag Eru.exe from \Windows to your desktop to create a shortcut. Double click Eru.exe icon to copy the configuration files to your bootable disk. I keep all such utility shortcuts in a utils folder and just have one shortcut icon to utils on the desktop, else my desktop would be full of utility icons. The full startup up disk with various files is made from going to control panel-Add/Remove Programs-Startup Disk. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 283126 | 2004-10-22 06:29:00 | Thanks Terry for the correction. Must confess that I have never done this myself, allthough always use the command on the C drive when doing a reinstall. My son tells me me that I don't need the S bit, but it works OK. Bye |
Peter H (220) | ||
| 283127 | 2004-10-22 23:31:00 | You wouldn't believe this but I have just had occasion to use the good advice above! I foolishly opened an email with a . com extension . Thought that the . com was internet related, and did not realise it was a no-no executable type file . Must have loaded some ghastly worm as CSSRS . EXE kept trying to access the internet, and weird messages kept coming up on my email programme etc . etc . AVG fully updated could not find it, neither could Spybot or Trojan remover . So I restored the registry from the last backup (18/10/04) and the problem seems to have gone away . :) So a debt of gratitude for the help . Has any one else struck this "nasty?" I see looking on the internet that Nortons doesn't detect what appears to be something similar, and it nibbles away at Nortons, ultimately destroying your system . Thanks again . |
Randolf (75) | ||
| 283128 | 2004-10-22 23:37:00 | Sorry - correction: CSRSS.EXE | Randolf (75) | ||
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