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Subject: Re: Win95 trashed booteasy and I can't fix it
To: gt4722a@prism.gatech.edu (Brian "AGENT GORDON COLE" Atkins)
Date: Sat, 7 Oct 1995 05:50:25 +0100 (MET)
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In-Reply-To: <199510062047.QAA10902@acmex.gatech.edu> from "Brian "AGENT GORDON COLE" Atkins" at Oct 6, 95 04:47:25 pm
From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
Reply-To: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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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...
> 
As I already said (and Terry Lambert alsp pointed out): Boot from
a DOS disk and don't use the Win95 Command tool (unless you shut down
Win95 to the command prompt).

Win95 'protects' your disk from being written to the bootsectors.


--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de