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Hard Drive will not boot -- with a twist
The boot disk I am using (the floppy) is write-protected. I will scan it when I get home (from a clean machine), but I think it is clean. I looked for the major booting sys files...like io.sys, ms-dos.sys, drvspace.bin...and one other that escapes me at the moment. I have run sys c...- babbjon
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- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
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Hard Drive will not boot -- with a twist
Recently my C: drive became infected with the W95.Spaces virus. I spent several days booting from an emergency floppy running Norton Virus scans to remove/repair all the infected files. When I was finished, the drive wouldn't boot. It simply returns a NON SYSTEM DISK OR DISK ERROR message. I...- babbjon
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