it could be that command.com is on a bad sector.  Can you rename the current command.com to something else and then copy a new command.com onto the hard drive.
 
Have you run a scandisk on the drive?
 


 
On 2/3/06, Patrick Steil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Well, the command.com on the floppy seems to work fine when I boot off the floppy.... I did that and tried to do a SYS C:, but the SYS.com wasn't on the floppy... I found the SYS.com on the hard drive of the down system and copied it to the floppy and then from the floppy ran SYS C: and now I'm in this situtation where it boots, but then says the command.com is missing or corrupt....
 
I also found another command.com in the c:\windows\command\edb folder and it was the same date/time and filesize... tried copying that to c:\windows and got the same results....
 
So this is why I wanted to try and get the command.com from a running system...
 
The only "copy" of Windows Me we have is a Compaq restore CD which I tried to restore into a Vmware VM and it wouldn't go...  have looked on the net for a copy of command.com and didn't find any ....
 
Any other ideas.... anyone?
We are about to give up and call this system dead, but it is so close, I just hate to leave my friend with a system like this...
 
Patrick
 

 
On 2/3/06, Marlon Moyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
so the boot disk is giving you a corrupt command.com also?

are you doing the 'sys c:' from the floppy?




On 2/3/06, Patrick Steil <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
Yah, I tried that.... but for some reason, the files (at least command.com) from the boot disk didn't seem to work.... getting a "corrupted or missing command.com" when we boot up the Windows Me PC...
 
That is why I wanted to get the files from a running system of the c drive...
 
Patrick
 


 
On 2/3/06, Marlon Moyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
Patrick, 

All of those files should be on the bootdisk, and the bootdisk can be downloaded here:

http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm



On 2/3/06, Patrick Steil < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
Hey, anyone out there have access to a running system with Windows Me on it?  Have a friend with one that is down...
 
If you have access to it, I would be forever grateful if you could zip up and email me the following files:
 
io.sys
msdos.sys
drvspace.bin
 
These files are hopefully in the c:\windows folder.... thanks!
 
Please contact me offline if you have these thanks!   :) 


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