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Bad command error reading (or writing) drive x:
[MS-DOS]
f} ■ 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
f] that the file or command is on the disk, or in the command
path.
^•n Bad or missing Command Interpreter
[MS-DOS]
■ ms-dos cannot find the command.com/i7e 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.
f) 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/i/e.
^ ' Check the accuracy of the device command in the configsys
file.
O Bad Partition Table
[Format]
■ This message means that there is no DOS partition on the hard
C*^ 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]
/—s ■ This message tells you the current setting of Break