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Subject: Re: Win95 trashed booteasy and I can't fix it
To: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 1995 16:47:25 -0400 (EDT)
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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...