Summary: Hi.. I have an old compaq, and i would like to know how to boot Dos from the c: drive....? ( I had a problem trying to get my cdrom driver to reconi...
Summary: Bilal, Simply formatting a drive does not make it a bootable drive. There are system files which must be installed on the drive to make it a "System D...
Summary: This post was made on Win95/98 forum, but figured DOS forum was more appropriate. I have many DOS applications requiring different configs (i.e. devic...
Summary: Hi, I think the drive is OK, but this user of yours deleted all files including command.com. Try to boot from the 1st DOS6.22 setup disk. (If computer...
Summary: Go into the bios of your computer and double check to make sure it is set to boot from the hard disk. I'm not sure exactly where you should look as a...
Summary: I have a DOS game from several years back and I'm trying to use a boot disk to run it from my Gateway, which uses XP. I do not get any message of how...
Summary: I just got a used hard drive with nothing on it but the Windows 98 version of DOS. The only Windows version I had to install was Windows 3.1, so I ha...
Summary: i need a little help i found this old computer in my attack and i can not get it to run in any way shape or form i can turn it on and go to the b...
Summary: You need to specify the "path." For example, when I install Whenox98, I always copy the "win98" folder (directory) to the C: drive, so, if I'...
Summary: I have the following problem with my recently acquired second-hand laptop (a 486 SLC with 4 MB of RAM and 1.2 GB of hard-drive). I downloaded a compl...
Summary: My c: drive is compressed. so i can't install windows 95 into it. and i can't even go into windows from dos. is there a way to uncompress the c: drive...
Summary: 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 ...
Summary: I am getting the following message just before the system boots: Primary Master Hard Disk C: 6.3 Quantum LP240A GM240A01X The Hard drive has been FDI...
Summary: I recently partitioned my HD to get it ready for an NT install. The NT install didn't work so I wanted to re-partition the drive, thinking that that m...
Summary: i checked, and you're right. it's NTFS file system. so i downloaded the boot disc from ntfs.com and still no change. when i type c: at DOS it says som...
Summary: It is time for a re-format, but I cannot get a handle on my C: drive. My system configurations are all default, these problems did not show up until r...
Summary: Hi Igor, Thanks for responding! I have tried to use the sys command to restore the system files and when I rebooted it gave the same error message. ...
Summary: I'm trying to clean up a Windows 95, P166 PC to donate to a charitable organization and I'm having trouble trying to re-format the hard drive to clean...
Summary: I just finished setting up my A7N8X Deluxe with a RAID stripeset using 2 SATA 80 GB Seagates (and a 120 GB ATA as backup!!!). 1. Get the SATA drives o...
Summary: Well, based on your description, I must make some assumptions about what's going on. It seems that you know that the hard disk is in fact installed in...
Summary: Maybe you can do this ... I did before. 1. sys a diskett 2. bootup you computer and sys it back to your new computer 4. boot your new computer from c:...
Summary: Just a thought exercise: what would happen if you made a boot diskette with any version of DOS, replaced the bootfiles MSDOS.SYS, IO.SYS and COMMAND.C...
Summary: i need to delete pc dos version 7 from my c: drive in order to install ms dos. Does anyone know how to do this? i have tried fdisk c: and format c: an...
Summary: I have a huge NT installation problem caused by a corrupt c drive. The setup advice is to run scandisk to sort the problem, but how do I do that if Do...
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