A:Command.com interpreter

[deafmonk19]

I'm going crazy when my computer kept saying I/O error please replace disk,command.com interpreter.

I tried to use madboot disk on cd but It didn't work I want to use the madboot so I can reinstall windows 98se after I replaceed the harddrive.

The only computer I can use is my new laptop and Im using my laptop as a support for the other computer we have. but the thing is,,,,, this laptop doesnt have the A drive only the Cd/DVD rom drive.

Does anyone or can anyone help me with my problems?

[Mordac85]

A little more info please. What happened to make your system give an I/O error? Did you have a hardware failure or just install some software or an update? Can you reproduce it and under what circumstances? I'm just not sure your problem, or what information you're looking for, is very clear.

[ShadeTreeLee]

A more common error message when dealing with real floppies is the one where it asks for a location of the command interpreter and it is looking for a valid full path to the command.com file such as A:\command.com. This error indicates that the command.com file on the floppy is damaged somehow but enough of it still got on board to ask for a good copy of the file.

Your error doesn't seem quite like that one, so I'm assuming some damage to your laptop's CD drivers has occured and this is the basis for your error. Quite a few laptops have their CDROM drivers on a hidden partition on the hard drive which also contains some BIOS code, all of which a new hard drive WON'T have on it. Typically laptops come with a Restore CD that will boot the computer and place the hidden partition, BIOS code and CDROM drivers on the hard drive for you. Get that disk.

Compaq, Dell and a few others do this same method with full sized desktop computers as well so you might want to tell us the make and model of the computer that is having troubles or take it upon yourself to go to the makers website to loacate any such Restore CDs for the exact model if they are still available.

Post a link to the madboot disk or tell us where you got it from. I've never heard of it before and would like to see what others have found and are trying to use.