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From: hhamedan AT osf1 DOT gmu DOT edu (Hassan Hamedani)
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Subject: Re: How do I solve the problem of "Cannot find command.com, system halted?"
Date: 19 Mar 1996 19:19:27 GMT
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In article <skhickm DOT 230 DOT 0022E19A AT azstarnet DOT com> skhickm AT azstarnet DOT com (Steve Hickman) writes:
>In article <4ienei$l5d AT apollo DOT isisnet DOT com> bcarson AT ra DOT isisnet DOT com (cyberbob) writes:
>>From: bcarson AT ra DOT isisnet DOT com (cyberbob)
>
>>I run win 3x have dos 6.22 and recieve the message: "invalid 
>>command.com, system halted." Help is appreciated at 
>>bcarson AT ra DOT isisnet DOT com 
>
>Your system is telling you it tried to refresh COMMAND.COM and couldn't 
>find it.  Be sure your COMSPEC environment variable is valid.  Use the SET 
>command (just type SET then press Enter) to see where your system expects 
>to find COMMAND.COM then be sure its really there, or code SET COMSPEC 
>in your AUTOEXEC.BAT to set the variable with the full path of a valid 
>COMMAND.COM (e.g., SET COMSPEC=C:\DOS\COMMAND.COM).
>
>
  How far along is this?  If it's at bootup, make a system disk and
copy the SYS.COM command to it (for simplest results, format the
diskette w/ the DOS 6.22).  Use this command to transfer system
files (including COMMAND.COM) to the HD.
  You may need to set the computer to boot-floppy if it can only
boot HD currently.  Make the adjustment in the CMOS (or whatever 
they call it these days) setup.

Hope this helps,
-p



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