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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!news.kei.com!MathWorks.Com!news2.near.net!yale!yale.edu!news.ycc.yale.edu!yar.trincoll.edu!maclab01.mac.trincoll.edu!user From: ( ) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Big Problem Date: 8 Oct 1994 20:50:07 GMT Organization: Trinity College Lines: 21 Message-ID: <-0810941700180001@maclab01.mac.trincoll.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: maclab01.mac.trincoll.edu I have a serious problem with a computer of a friend of mine that I need to solve ASAP. His computer is a Acros 486DX2, with 8 meg ram and 200 meg hd. He the old of Dos 6 which came out in '93. I needed to copy several files from his computer so I linked the two together through serial port null modem connections. I used this program called ZIP to D/L files from his computer. That worked. After I finished I I wanted to check Dos 6. INTERLNK.EXE that the manual says can be used to link the two computers. To use the program I had to put it into config.sys using a device statement on both computers. When I rebooted both computers, mine started up ok, and his didn't. The hard disk ran until a few seconds after the "Starting MS-DOS" message appeared.Then it stopped. I rebooted several times, and tried to break out just in case the computer was getting locked up in the autoexec.bat to no avail. I then tried to boot the computer using DOS 5.0 and DOS 6.0 floppy disks. That got me to the dos a:\ prompt, but whenever I would then try to log onto C:\ it would say "Invalid Disk Drive Specification". I used FDISK and other diagnostic programs to see if the computer new the drives were there. They all showed that there was fixed connected but none of them were able to read the fixed disk. Does anyone have any suggestions? rwilliam@trincoll.edu