Summary: That worked great except, when I type d: after the c:\> I get: Invalid drive specification. Apparently, my boot disk did not handle the cd-rom drive. ...
Summary: I have an Acer 486 that I'm trying to get working. The h/d was formatted so I loaded dos 6.22 in order to get my cdrom working. Now when I boot, I get...
Summary: recently, i swithed on my pc n after the memory test, a message "checksum error, defaults loaded" appear. i happen to know that this happen after my ...
Summary: Important drive information (servo, sector layout, and defect management, etc.) is stored in the low-level format at the factory. This information is...
Summary: I got this old Compaq 286 Portable (DOS). It only has two five and a quarter inch drives in it.It says when I turn it on ''Non system disk please inse...
Summary: I have been looking for a set of dos6.x and saw many references to http://mercure.umh.ac.be/download/Microsoft/.However, when I went to the site and D...
Summary: John, just to be absolutely clear. Are you FIRST holding down, continue to hold down the "F1" key AND THEN powering it up, while STILL holding the...
Summary: I'd like to thank Mr. Pignataro for his kind assistance with a few issues I've asked about. I am still dealing with the desire to insert leading zeroe...
Summary: I have two questions, first, can you have a goto at the bottom of the script that points to somewhere at the top? I have found it is often unsuccesfu...
Summary: Hmmm... I see another problem here: If you execute a second batch file from this main batch file, the second batch file will 'take control', and when ...
Summary: Removed the battery - waited - replaced battery - No luck. Must be one of those referenced danged proprietary machines. Boot disk runs to a point and ...
Summary: Prepare as many partitions as operating systems you'll install. Then put in the install CD and install to the partition you choose. It'll probably ask...
Summary: I've got dos on a 40mb primary partition 1st and then winnt on the 2ed 130gig ntfs and a fat32 10gig after winnt. all 3 are primary partitions on the ...
Summary: Let me try to decipher this one(I am shooting in the dark). " how the copy command was prograamed in dos.and how it is combined to command.exe" InDOS...
Summary: Hi all This is very strange territory for me but here's the problem. I got an old (Very Old)486/50mhz machine with a 240mb hdd and I think 32kb(not mb...
Summary: Hi, I was able to successfully create a custom logo and replace the default DOS 7.1 logo (logo.sys). I renamed the default file to logo.old and m...
Summary: I have an Iomega 80GB (one month old) USB external hard drive that is identified both in Windows and in DOS as a WDC WD800B-JHA0. I connect it to a l...
Summary: Today I turned on my 486 & after the memory count it said KB interface error, press F1 to continue. I press F1 & it did nothing. The numlock, capslock...
Summary: Can anyone help with this? One of our computers will not proceed past the SCSI check upon boot-up. Here is the story, if it helps: We are a non-profit...
Summary: I'm afraid this can't be done for one very important reason. DOS is not multi-tasking. In order for something like that to work, two processes (the ...
Summary: Is fdisk giving you the same error messages on the 1.1 gig NEC as the Seagate 2.1 gig? Here's a link to the Seagate Diagnostic software: http://www.se...
Summary: let me pick your collective brains... i found and old 386 laptop: Panasonic Business Mate 370, with 5 MB RAM! I know it used to work a couple of years...
Summary: Akgolf, I must interrupt my research. I'll be out for the next 2 weeks, and I'm leaving in a few hours. I'm terribly sorry, but I can no longer help y...
Summary: Well, that might be possible - you do know you can suppress output from a .bat by having @echo off as its first line Depends on the program, but you s...
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