I need to get into my C drive to rename a corrupted Windows file. When I open windows, my PC crashes before I have time for options.
Through research, the easiest way to do this seems to be to format a floppy disk and make a DOS backup. I did that. A summary of my experience is below. In short, I can get the A: prompt, but I cannot get it to recognize my C drive. I’m 99% there…I just need to get over this one last hurdle!
I made the backup DOS boot disk two nights ago, but when I got home and tried to load it I got the following error:
Disk I/O error
Replace the disk, and then press any key
I figured the DOS program wasn’t being recognized on my Dell for some reason, so I went back to my work PC today and recreated the boot disk. Afterwards, I renamed mode.com to mode.exe.
I tried loading that new boot disk and I had success…the PC gave me a A:\> prompt. I thought I was in the clear. I typed “cd C:/windows/system32” and received “Invalid drive specification”. I tried “cd C:” and received the same error.
How can I get my PC to recognize my C drive through the MS-DOS floppy backup?
