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I have MS DOS 6.22 on the first partition and windows XP Pro on the second partition. Of course the first partition is FAT and the 2nd is FAT32. I could have made it ntfs, I know, but that is the way I have it.
Now the problem:I reinstalled MS DOS 6.22 on the first partition and it wiped out whatever was in the MBR or wherever? I can no longer come up with the windows XP boot loader to choose MS DOS or windows XP Pro.
What can I do put put the XP loader back into the MBR or what do I need to do to the second partition to get the windows XP laoder back up again?
Thanks
I don't have XP yet so this is a guess.
1. Try to SYS C: with the start up disk. Then sys C: with 6.22. If this doesn't work, you will have to FDISK /MBR, install 6.22 and then reinstall Windows XP. The alternative is a third party boot manager such as comes with Partition Magic.
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Do the SYS C: as above and then boot with the XP CD and Choose Repair and then Recovery Console. At the prompt type:
fixmbr [Enter]
fixboot [Enter]
Remove the CD and type:
exit [enter]
With luck, you'll boot to the System Startup Screen where you can select DOS or Windows 2000.
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"What do you use MS DOS, DR DOS or FreeDOS"
Actually, I use a hybrid of the above DOSes and several others including PC-DOS 2000, MS-DOS 7.01, PT-DOS and and a little GEOS, just to keep things interesting. Why use one DOS, when you can cobble together the best of several? ;-)
By the way, Pete, at least fred6008 is trying and we can't get it right all of the time. So, so your comment was entirely uncalled for.
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MS DOS 7 I thought was part of the windows 98. You saying you can get it as an install for Pure DOS. No windows at all.
Is it on my windows 98 SE CD or do I just replace some files form the windows 98 CD MSDOS onto my MS DOS 6.22?
How much was the IBM PC 2000 DOS? Is there anyway of getting s copy of it or put me in the right direction for that OS?
THanks once again :):)
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Haha - Poor fred - that guy takes some abuse in here. At least once a week somebody rags on him! He's just trying to help! Keep it up fred - we're not all geniuses like Pete.
CJ
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The best place to get a copy of PC-DOS 2000 or OS2 Warp is your local I.B.M. computer club. There will be one somewhere in your area and they have fund raising "flea markets" from time to time. I recently picked-up secondhand copies of both, boxed and with all manuals and documentation for $20.00 Canadian each. The best part, and what makes it worthwhile paying the money, is that you get to meet the club members who are usually old-timers who really know their way around a computer, so check it out.
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Oops, I forgot one of your questions. I use as my base install MS-DOS 6.22, but I have replaced Emm386.exe, Defrag.exe, MEM.EXE, MSD.exe amd and a few other bits and pieces from MS-DOS 7.01. You could make MS-DOS 7.01 stand alone by copying the contents of the Windows\Command folder to a folder called DOS and cobble together the missing pieces from a MS-DOS 6.22 install and eventually, after a little fiddling around, get a good working 32 bit pure DOS system. For my purposes, 16 bit suits me just fine.
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IS that IBM PC 2000 also called PC DOS 7??
I was able to find a copy but dunno if that is the IBM one?
During the install phase did it say PC DOS 7 or IBM PC DOS 2000?
THanks again
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IBM PC DOS 2000 is simply an upgrade of PC DOS 7, that why it says that during the install phase. No big deal, you have the right one.
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Another question for ya. SOrry
I cannot seem to be able to reinstall XP Pro or any of the DOS based OS's without losing the boot loader that XP uses.
I know XP has 4 critical files its puts on the C drive.
1)ndldr
2)ntdetect.com
3)boot.ini
4)bootsect.dosSo when I reinstall MS DOS OS again it must change somewhere and those files Win XP has are in reference to the earlier install.
I followed the Protocol:
1)Boot to MS DOS and sys a:
2)Run XP from CD and choose repair then console
3)type this at command promtp:
fixboot
and optionally
fixmbr <<< this one has a warning though so it did not recomend doing that.ok that worked fine. I got the WinXP boot loader again with the option to boot to MS DOS or WInXP.
Problem is I got a non system disk when I boot to MS-DOS which was expected. And that is why I suppose that I was suppose to transfer the system files over to floppy and now execute this at A:
sys C:Well that did not work for
IBM PC 2000How do I create a good boot disk in IBM PC 2000 OS?
sys a: is not enough as it did not tranfer soem of the most critical files I suppose.
Hope you can answer this one :):)
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WinXP ain´t loading setver.exe, =[
(Yes, setver.exe it´s included on config.sys)
What can I do about it ?
Another thing...I got a lot of errors (three)
when I run setver.exe on prompt...Why´s that ?Thanks.
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i have another question, but it's not about msdos!
here it is; if you have XP installed can you install win98 at one other partition? without re-installing Xp ofcourse!waiting for your response....
greetz
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I need to install XP, 2000 and MS-DOS on the same machine. I already have 2000 and XP on C: and D:. How (where to get a copy?)and can I install MS-DOS on E:? What is the best solution?
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