How do you change to C drive from a boot disk boot up to A:?

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From: Norm Katuna (nk001atoperamaildotcom_at_)
Date: 03/14/04 

Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 09:35:14 -0800

HI all.

I have this undeletable empty directory on my C drive. It's called 773a9 with a
file called sp2 in it. Both are zero bite files and the sp2 file is
unaccessible when double clicked on. I get the unable to open bit.

I've tried to delete both of them from Explorer, with no luck. You know the
usual cannot be accessed junk.

I've tried deleting them from the safe mode command prompt and no luck. I've
tried from cmd from Run and no luck.

My next way is to use a boot disk (which I have created), but alas, I can't
figure out to go from the A:when I boot from the boot floppy. None of the
command prompts that I kind of remember from the Dos days will let me change
drives to C from A:.

Any ideas or am I sol with trying to delete those files this way?

Norm K

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