Thanks to Gerald and Ben for the replies.
I have not done what you suggested yet Gerald.
I did not get your earlier posting and it may have been
caused by the word v***s in my original posting assuming that you included
my posting in your reply.
Marlene tells me that any posting containing that word will bounce.She put
my posting on the group herself.
Thanks again
John
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 12:15 AM
Subject: Re: PCWorks: re Damaged Files
> At 09:44 PM 6/14/01 +0100, jfisher wrote the following:
>
> >I did not get any replies to my earlier posting, so here it is again in
case
> >anyone missed it.
>
> You did too get a reply, from me. Reply posted 16:08 (PST) on 12Jun01
>
>
> >I have just run my AVG prog and though it did not find any v****s it
> >reported the following files damaged.
> >C/IO.sys
> >C/windows/command/EBD/IO.sys
> >C/windows/command/EBD/winboot.sys.
> >
> >What action do I need to take - if any.
> >Do I replace the files and if so where do I get them from.
> >etc etc.
>
> Need to run SYS C: from the system (boot) floppy disk to restore IO.SYS
> Example:
> a:> sys c:
>
> The SYS.COM file is found in c:\WINDOWS\COMMAND directory. You can make a
> boot floppy disk containing this file by opening MyComputer and right
> clicking on 3 1/2 Floppy (A:) then selecting Full format (under format
type)
> and Copy System files (under Other options:). Reboot your system with
this
> floppy in the A: drive then type the command sys c: to restore (create) a
> new IO.SYS file.
>
> You might need to remove the hidden system file attributes so you can
delete
> the IO.SYS file in C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\EBD before copying the new one you
> created from the root directory of C:
>
> WINBOOT.SYS is just the IO.SYS renamed when you boot the system into
MS-DOS.
> So after creating the new IO.SYS you can dlete the old WINBOOT.SYS file.
You
> may need to shoe hidden system file attributes to dlete this file. Reboot
> the system in MS-DOS mode and you should then create a new WINBOOT.SYS
file.
>
> The attribute command is use to clear the system attribute so you can
delete
> the file. Click Start, point to Programs, and then click MS-DOS Prompt. At
> the command prompt, type the following commands, pressing ENTER after each
> command:
> C:\WINDOWS\ cd\command\ebd
> attrib -s -h -r io.sys
> delete io.sys
> attrib -s -h -r winboot.sys
> delete winboot.sys
>
> --
> Gerry Boyd
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