Drive in MS DOS mode. WHY?

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Drive in MS DOS mode. WHY?

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Name: Scott
Date: September 23, 1999 at 05:53:25 Pacific
Subject: Drive in MS DOS mode. WHY?

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My drive is in MS DOS mode. How do I fix it? Should I re install Windows?

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Response Number 1

Name: Jeff Cheang
Date: September 23, 1999 at 10:08:47 Pacific
Subject: Drive in MS DOS mode. WHY?

Reply: (edit)

This happened to me onetime. Not neccessary. Check autoexec.bat and config.sys, make sure you don't have any drivers loaded for the hard drives. If there is any, remove them and restart windows. Hope this works.

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Response Number 2

Name: sybertek
Date: September 24, 1999 at 11:07:07 Pacific
Subject: Drive in MS DOS mode. WHY?

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its because your computer some how is using real mode drivers instead of protected mode that are for windows. when a windows 9x computer winds up using real mode drivers it will show a window on the perfomance tab in the properties of "my computer icon". Like above post go into autoexec.bat and config.sys and REM out the lines

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Response Number 3

Name: SCREAMER
Date: September 25, 1999 at 14:21:47 Pacific
Subject: Drive in MS DOS mode. WHY?

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how about ControlPanel/SYSTEM click on the offending drive and go to UPDATE drivers and install the correct one instead of that dos driver! ?? wouldnt that work?

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Response Number 4

Name: DC
Date: September 27, 1999 at 15:09:59 Pacific
Subject: Drive in MS DOS mode. WHY?

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Microsoft has a page for troubleshooting this problem.
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q130/1/79.asp

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