rescue disks just saved me....
i knew there was a reason for all that darn norton rescue disk updating i keep doing. i finally had to turn to the rescue set after making some DOS driver changes that precluded me from starting windows. i was trying to make an image of my c:drive on a removable disk (jaz) and drive image software was not recognizing the jaz drive. iomega tech support pointed me at a DOS driver download (drive image only runs in DOS) and i downloaded and installed it. but then on reboot i could not get past the win98 splash screen.
what a handy tool the rescue set is! using 1 floppy and 1 jaz disk, i start my machine with those disks in place and boot right to windows and a step-by-step diagnostic routine. it checked first for viruses, then the partition table, then boot record then ran disk doctor, then searched recycle bin for possible deleted necessary files (.ini, .exe, .vxd, .sys, etc). all of that was okay. then rescue discovered that the startup files had changed since last update and offered to restore by copying the saved startup files AUTOEXEC.BAT, CONFIG.SYS, MSDOS.SYS, IO.SYS, and SYS.INI. i clicked restore, turned the machine off, pulled out the two disks, booted up and all is well again.
very nice
:)
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