Hi,

try to press F5 while booting.

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On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, rad0 wrote:

> hello,
>
> I was messing around with the msdos.sys file
> and yes, I hosed it good, it won't boot now...
>
> I want to get into the system, and set the system back
> to use an uncorrupted archive.
>
> I'm using windows 98, I know it does the archives , but
> I've done this so few times, I've forgotten...how
>
> This is an older compaq laptop, presario
>
> Can someone please tell me what buttons, I hold down
> while booting, to get me to the area where, I can
> tell the thing to use an archive version..
>
> If any one can give me a little recipe for doing this,
> I would be much obliged...
>
>
> thanks...
>
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