Re: need a iie boot disk!?

["Bryan Parkoff" <nospam@nospam.com>]

Steven,

    Did you use lowercase characters when you type "init hello" etc?  It is 
supposed to use uppercase characters only that DOS 3.3 supports.

Bryan Parkoff

"Steven Read" <steveread---REMOVETHIS---@mindspring.com> wrote in message 
news:Ctxfe.10806$HL2.6903@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net...
> Hello.  I need a boot disk, I think.
>
> Right now I have only one disk, which worked an hour ago, then I typed 
> something by accident (fat-fingered it) and the disk drive ran for a 
> second, now the disk seems corrupt.  So I can't boot this disk anymore, 
> booting with it brings me to the memory dump asterisk prompt.  When I get 
> out of that to a regular prompt.  The disk commands do not work, but basic 
> commands do work.  So 'init hello' and 'catalog' and such give syntax 
> errors, which I assume is because I can't boot this disk.  I was under the 
> impression that the iie rom contained enough information for me to format 
> a new disk with init hello.  I guess not.  Now I have no good disks.  Are 
> there any tricks to get this disk reformatted?  I need a couple blank 
> dos3.3 disks so I can save my basic files.  Can anyone help me here?