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Name: Paul
Date: March 24, 2001 at 16:02:23 Pacific
Subject: computer won't boot

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I have an old 286 computer that I have been playing with. I can't get the hard drive to boot, it says "missing operating system". I formatted the hard drive, and installed dos 6.22 onto it. I can get it to bootup from a disk but I can get it to boot up from the hard drive.

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Response Number 1

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Date: March 24, 2001 at 18:53:12 Pacific

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fdisk then format hard drive

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Response Number 2

Name: fred6008
Date: March 24, 2001 at 20:02:48 Pacific

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SYS C:.
Then try a different operating system. 6.0 might work where 6.2 did not. (I don't think that HIMEM.SYS that counts extended memory would cause a problem, but it might.

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Name: sammy
Date: March 25, 2001 at 11:58:31 Pacific

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himem sys won't work in a 286 computer..
so edit config.sys files and remove,if its there, Himem.sys , emm386, and any reference to load high. I think dos 6.22 will automatically install himem. ???

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