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- From: nap42487@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Nishith A. Patel)
- Subject: Re: How to access HPFS drive after floppy boot ??
- References: <1992Nov17.043542.17311@trl.oz.au>
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 05:14:51 GMT
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- smadden@titan.trl.OZ.AU (Steve Madden) writes:
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- >Hi there,
- > after receiving and installing TCPIP v1.2 which does not work
- >under 2.0, I duly removed it, but not as the manual suggested :-( I then
- >tried to instal version 1.2.1, but it does'nt have the ethernet drivers
- >on the disc yet, and so I get errors about being unable to find
- >macwd.dat or wahtever. I press enter, and one of the TCPIP drivers
- >loads, and the machine then hangs. If I boot from a floppy, I can't
- >acess my HPFS partition, and so I cant edit my config.sys file to stop
- >the TCPIP stuff being loaded. Anyone out there able to tell me what I
- >have to do to get at my config.sys ? (if I do a 'dir' after booting from
- >floppy, I get "incorrect internal file identifier") Am I destined for a
- >complete re-install or is there some way out ??
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- run CHKDSK
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