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Old 10-05-2003, 06:23 AM   #1
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Talking bad command file

I just finished reinstalling win98 from a recovery disk and everything seems ok except on bootup I get a bad command file message for a moment and it then boots normally.What should I be looking for here?Should I reinstall again?Its a Sony 300mhz P2 laptop.It loaded a bunch of useless software and I unistalled a lot of it but It started doing it right after reinstall.Thanks
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Old 10-05-2003, 12:33 PM   #2
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Hi shifty,

Run msconfig and check the autoexec.bat or config.sys section for any calls to files that have been deleted.
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Thanks Doc.I'll try it.
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