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Bad command error reading (or writing) drive
x:
[MS-DOS]
• This is a device
error.
See
Appendix
D,
"Disk
and
Device
Errors."
Bad command or file name
[MS-DOS]
• The
command
cannot
find
the program
you
asked
it
to run.
Check
to
see that you
typed
the
command
line properly,
and
that
the
file
or
command
is
on
the
disk,
or
in
the
command
path.
Bad or missing Command Interpreter
[MS-DOS]
• MS-DOS
cannot
find
the
command.com
file
on
the disk; either
the
file
is missing
from
the root directory,
or
the
file
is
invalid
You also receive this message
if
command.com
has
been
moved
from
the directory
it
was originally
in
when
you
started MS-DOS.
Either restart
the
system
with
a disk
that
contains
the
command
com file,
or
copy
the
command
com
file from
your
backup MS-DOS master disk
onto
the
disk
used
to
start
MS-DOS.
Bad or missing
filename
[MS-DOS]
• You specified a device incorrectly
in
the config.sys file.
Check
the
accuracy
of
the
device
command
in
the
config.sys
file.
Bad Partition Table
[Format]
• This message means that there is
no
DOS
partition
on
the hard
disk.
You
must
run
fdisk
to
create
a DOS partition
on
your
hard
disk
Bad unit error reading drive
x:
[MS.DOS]
• This is a device
error.
See
Appendix
D,
"Disk
and
Device
Errors."
BREAK is off (or on)
[MS-DOS]
• This message tells
you
the current setting
of
Break.
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