starting ms dos hangup

[russog]

Recently, in another computer I own, everytime I boot up it hangs at starting ms dos. I tried changing the boot sequence in the setup to no avail. any ideas? Thanks
gil

[Igor M]

Hi,

First of all if you have DOS 5 or later try to press F8 while message "Starting MSDOS" is displayed and boot computer in step-by-step mode. It allows you to find driver or program which caused the hanging up. If your computer hangs before you can access step-by-step mode, try to boot from diskette and run Scandisk on C: drive. If after that problem not be fixed boot from diskette again and use the command

SYS C:

to transfer system files on C: drive. (And check viruses on C: drive.)

Good luck, Igor M