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On Oct 9, 12:05pm, Arturo J. Morales wrote: > Subject: WIN95: Help... > I was very surprised as to the (relative) ease of installation of Win95 > over an ethernet PCMCIA card on my TP750Cs. As soon as I figured out > what i needed and got the Win95 driver for my card, everything was almost > perfect... I did have to transmit data via SneakerNet (tm) between the > two computers for one part of the installation, but I needed the exercise > anyway :) > > Now, here's the problem: > The Microsoft Internet explorer for some reason allows you to use c:\ > as a directory for the cache (BAD IDEA) If you then decide to change that > and in the process believe that you can erase only the cached files by using > the "Clear Directory" command from within the viewer, Things go very bad... > > The program just decided to erase everything on my c:\ except for the swap > file... I did "sys" the drive from my boot floppy, but I have lost all > the other files. I looked at the startup files from the desktop, and > managed to get to a prompt on my computer (by copying the atuoexec.bat > and config.sys files) but 1) Windows won't start automatically and > worst yet, 2) If I type "win" I get the logo screen, but then the system > crashes after loading the Modem, and before loading the Netcard (It loads > one of them) > > Is anyone out there using Win95 PCMCIA drivers? can you tell me what you have > on the c:\ directoy? What about your autoexec.bat and config.sys files? > > I'd appreciate any help you can offer, since I'm stuck w/o a working system > right now.... I tried to eject the network card and and reboot, but i get the same message: Something is missing related to VFAT. I looked into the resource kit to try and figure out what this means, but no luck... Thanks again in advance... Art -- Arturo J. Morales (RPI '94) | art@aars.mit.edu Department of Biology | Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology http://minihelix.mit.edu/top.html |