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cannot boot even from DOS startup disk
Name: abe Date: September 12, 2000 at 13:48:38 Pacific
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I recently partitioned my HD to get it ready for an NT install. The NT install didn't work so I wanted to re-partition the drive, thinking that that might be part of my problem. I deleted the primary and extended partitions reluctantly, but knew I'd be safe with my handy FreeDOS (an open source free version of MS-DOS) boot disk. WAS I EVER WRONG! The FreeDOS boot disk boots me to an a: prompt,and there I sit. I can look at the directory of the a: drive but all other commands (format,FDISK etc) give me a BAD COMMAND OR FILENAME error. And the C: drive is totally unreadable. I was booting from this disk successfully yesterday! Just looking for some clues as to what I did to my HD, and how I might be able to recover. My PC is an IBM 350 pentium.
Name: Jon Fox Date: September 12, 2000 at 21:57:45 Pacific
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Format and fdisk are both external commands, to use them you need format.com and fdisk.exe on your bootdisk. I'd recomend that you go Here and download a bootdisk. There's also a good one here.
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Response Number 2
Name: DoOMsdAY Date: September 13, 2000 at 06:14:56 Pacific
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Hey pal, there's not enough room for both of us linking to sites like that. :P
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Response Number 3
Name: Jon Fox Date: September 13, 2000 at 08:26:31 Pacific
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The following statement is a complete lie and should therefore be ignored:
"OK. It won't happen again."
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Response Number 4
Name: DoOMsdAY Date: September 13, 2000 at 08:31:59 Pacific
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Show off. :)
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Response Number 5
Name: DoOMsdAY Date: September 13, 2000 at 08:33:21 Pacific
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How did you change the Subject, by the way?
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Response Number 6
Name: Jon Fox Date: September 13, 2000 at 09:35:17 Pacific
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;-) Yeah I know pretty pathetic but I had to prove I had some kind of an edge on you didn't I? (rhetorical question) How did I change the subject line? I could tell you but then I'd have to kill you, so basically it works like this: Cut and paste the form to a htm/html file, name of your choosing. Edit the value of the hidden subject input box to what you want, type in the details as normal then send. Of course it could have gone horribly wrong and I'd have looked like an idiot, calculated risk which payed off. Don't know if Justin (or moderator(s)) will appreciate it much though.
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Response Number 7
Name: DoOMsdAY Date: September 13, 2000 at 09:53:12 Pacific
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Cool. :)
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Response Number 8
Name: DoOMsdAY Date: September 13, 2000 at 11:25:07 Pacific
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i'll tell you when i'm ready!
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Response Number 9
Name: Jon Fox Date: September 13, 2000 at 18:15:30 Pacific
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test
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Response Number 10
Name: Jon Fox Date: September 13, 2000 at 18:18:12 Pacific
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another test
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Response Number 11
Name: Jon Fox Date: September 13, 2000 at 18:19:52 Pacific
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First test again.
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Response Number 12
Name: DoOMsdAY Date: September 14, 2000 at 06:11:09 Pacific
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What're you testing?
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Response Number 13
Name: Jon Fox Date: September 14, 2000 at 10:18:51 Pacific
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HTML tags in the subject line, but it just cuts out anything enclosed in them. And for some unknown reason if you enclose the whole thing it reverts to a previous subject line. I think that I've found an alternative to what I was trying to achieve however. I'll find out when I test it later.
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Response Number 14
Name: DoOMsdAY Date: September 14, 2000 at 11:33:35 Pacific
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Yeah, I think (if I remember correctly) that the parser for the wwwboard does that.
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Response Number 15
Name: Jon Fox Date: September 14, 2000 at 12:12:35 Pacific
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That's a pretty safe assumption.
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Response Number 16
Name: joe Date: February 13, 2001 at 17:31:06 Pacific
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my hd settings are out of wack and i cant even boot dos im running it from a intel 386 on a win3.1 os i tried about 10 diffrent start up disks it just keep's trying to boot from my floppy and then it says it cant find an os on the hd even though it's on there i checked it i dont use 386's much and i dont know what to do i cant even get to the setup screan without unpluging my hd and then I can get into the motherboard setup but it dosent do me much good when i can't get into dos
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