From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_gate.net)
Date: Sun Apr 30 2000 - 11:50:27 EDT
The recovery CD might not be bootable..
try changing the boot sequence to FLOPPY, CD, HDD in that order..
Mark Bell wrote:
> At 06:48 PM 04/28/2000 -1000, Jimmy wrote:
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: Jimmy To:
> >thinhpad_at_cs.utk.edu Sent: Friday, April 28, 2000 6:39 PM Subject:
> >missing operating system
> > My thinkpad 385XD set crash,i tried to recover the old 95,i change
> >the boot sequence to cd rom first then i put in the recovery disc.After
> >that nothing boot up everthing gone,the screen came on thinkpan on
> >,after the thinkpad screen only missing operatingsystem show on the left
> >top coner. No matter what i did nothing came on eveni put the
> >recovery boot cdrom flopp in no luck,then i try to put the recovery cd in
> >on and off same thing no luck. Anyone has any idea please help.
> >Thanks Jimmy
> >
>
> Format a disk on another system with Windows 95 "format a: /s" to make
> the disk bootable. Copy sys.com to the disk from the c:\windows\command
> directory. Boot the floppy on the 385XD system. type "sys c:" at the a:
> prompt. Manually verify that command.com is in the root dir of your system.
> Reboot.
>
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