When you use the Emergency Recovery Utility (ERU) that is included on the Windows 95 CD-ROM to back up your configuration files, the utility may not work correctly. It may stop without any warning or error message.

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This behavior can occur if one or more of the default configuration files is missing.

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Verify that all the default configuration files exist on the hard disk.

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The ERU does not function properly if any of the following files are missing:

   Autoexec.bat
   Command.com
   Config.sys
   Io.sys
   Msdos.sys
   Protocol.ini
   System.dat
   System.ini
   User.dat
   Win.ini
				

For additional information about the ERU, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

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