Hello Arachnids:
One of the major problems I have in trying to accomplish very meaningful
and important tasks with a machine running Windows 95 and above is that
the machine doesn't behave very well with the version of DOS that is
installed into Windows 95.
I have a proposed solution, but I hesitate to resort to this without first
getting some advice from others who may have tried the same. Don't try
this at home without first experimenting with this technique on a machine
belonging to someone you might want to get even with.
Here is what I have in mind:
Given a machine with Windows 95 installed on a hard drive having a FAT 16
partition, and the partition's size not being too big to be recognized by
your favorite DOS version, would it be OK to boot to a floppy being a DOS
system disk, and then fix the hard drive's operating system simply by
doing "A>sys C:" Theoretically, that should fix it. Now my question is:
would employing such a measure fix the hard drive "permanently", i.e,
would I not easily be able to restore my original Windows 95 installation
simply by re-booting to a Windows 95 system disk floppy and then using the
SYS command again to transfer the operating system files back to the hard
drive? Has anyone ever tried this?
I await your replies with eager anticipation.
Sam Heywood
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