At 01:35 PM 7/21/98 -0700, you wrote:
>My boyfriend successfully installed an upgrade of Win98 onto his
>computer. One day, while passing a dull afternoon, he went to the
>Microsoft upgrade site and started downloading stuff. This totally
>toasted his system. So he decided to perform a Fdisk and start all over
>from scratch.
>
>The Fdisk was successful. When he loaded Win95, everything appears fine
>until rebooting for the first time. He gets a message saying that it
>cannot find Command.com. It is either corrupted or missing
Does the message ask him to type the path to command.com? If so, it may be
a virus. Junkie.boot virus corrupts a file (I don't remember which), then
asks for the path to command.com. If you have command.com some where else,
and input that path, it too will be corrupted.
>What are we missing?
>
>Nancy Havenhill
>
Paul Jones
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