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Not Booting from C:\
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Original Message
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Name: Mr. A
Date: October 2, 2000 at 07:56:46 Pacific
Subject: Not Booting from C:\
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Comment: Old 286 won't boot from C: usng dos 5 asks for disk in Drive A will boot with DOS 5 boot disk and C:\ is accessable it worked with hard disk before
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Response Number 2
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Name: mr o
Date: October 3, 2000 at 01:47:31 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)chk that there are the system files on the c: root. eg command.com, io.sys, and the other one.
Sounds like your boot files are corrupt. boot from a floppy and type
sys c: to copy over the boot files from the disk.
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Response Number 4
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Name: Dennis
Date: February 7, 2001 at 18:04:08 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)I just replaced a 850 WD Drive from a Micronics 486/66 Computer - with a Seagate 1.2G. I ran Fdisk and partitioned the drive, then formated C: (using Format C: /S), everything works but it will not boot from C?
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