Date: Fri, 6 Oct 1995 16:47:25 -0400 (EDT) From: gt4722a@prism.gatech.edu (Brian "AGENT GORDON COLE" Atkins) To: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de Cc: gt4722a@prism.gatech.edu, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Win95 trashed booteasy and I can't fix it Message-ID: <199510062047.QAA10902@acmex.gatech.edu> In-Reply-To: <199510060628.HAA07360@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> from "Christoph Kukulies" at Oct 6, 95 07:28:33 am
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> > > > > I made a big mistake and installed Win95 :) > > It trashed all over booteasy, so a friend helped me out and got me a new > > copy of it. I copied to a dos disk and tried to run it, but it gets > > error 3 on disk 0 when I try to update the boot sector. > > Is there any hope?? > > If your run it from a DOS disk (boot from that DOS disk) > you should be able to run it. I never saw that error 3. > It may sound stupid but try it again with the booteasy from > freebsd.cdrom.com or a mirror site and do it from a virus > clean diskette. I believe the floppy disk must be writable > since booteasy writes a backup copy of the boot sector > to the current directory. > I was using the latest booteasy(1.7) from a dos disk in Win95's "command monitor" or whatever it is calling dos nowadays. The disk was writeable and everything...
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