Article ID: 101305
Article Last Modified on 11/22/1999
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft MS-DOS 6.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft MS-DOS 6.2 Standard Edition
- Microsoft MS-DOS 6.21 Standard Edition
- Microsoft MS-DOS 6.22 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q101305
SYMPTOMS
You may receive an error message similar to the following if you run SETUP /E to install the optional utilities that ship with MS-DOS (Backup, Anti-Virus, and Undelete):
CAUSE
This message goes on to say that Setup could not find your MS-DOS directory because you have not installed MS-DOS or your MS-DOS directory is not included in your path. This error can also occur if Setup cannot find one or more of the following files in the MS-DOS directory:
SYS.COM
FORMAT.COM
DISKCOPY.COM
WORKAROUND
To correct this problem, copy or expand these files from the MS-DOS 6 or 6.2 Setup disks. DISKCOPY.COM is a compressed file on the installation disks and must be expanded using the EXPAND command, for example:
expand a:\diskcopy.co_ c:\dos\diskcopy.com
SYS.COM and FORMAT.COM are not compressed; therefore, you can use the COPY command as follows:
copy a:\sys.com c:\dos\sys.com
copy a:\format.com c:\dos\format.com
Additional query words: 6.22 6.00 SETUP/E switch uncompressed decompressed 6.20
Keywords: KB101305
