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krick:
Do you want the drive bootable or do you want all of DOS on the drive?
Most of the stuff that is installed as "DOS" is useless nowadays and a waste of drive space.
I don't see the point.


Making the drive bootable is easy....

Start with a windows 98SE boot disk.
boot with that disk
run Fdisk to create/delete partitions on your hard drive as necessary
reboot computer (leaving boot diskette in)
run format on your hard drive like this...

FORMAT C: /S /U

the "S" switch transfers the "system" to the hard drive making it bootable
the "u" switch performs an "unconditional" format which fills the drive with zeroes
(the "u" is not mandatory but I like to do it anyway)

then remove your boot disk and reboot the computer



Here's a link that shows how FDISK works....
http://www.perfectdrivers.com/howto/fdisk-format.html
_Iz-:

--- Quote from: Dexter on August 20, 2004, 09:33:58 am ---Hi all,

Theres a small program floating around that extracts the necessary ms-dos files from a windows 98 install to allow a hard drive to boot to dos.

Can anybody point me in the right direction??

Thanks

Dexter

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I have it at home (I'm at work right now). This is the closest I can find on the internet...

http://www.mvps.org/dts/WinME_DOS/Win-ME.htm

    Good Luck!
Dexter:
I actually have arcadeos, mame and roms on the drive (currently a secondary drive). I need to make it bootable to arcadeos after I swap the jumper to make it the primary drive.
_Iz-:

--- Quote from: Dexter on August 20, 2004, 10:55:37 am ---I actually have arcadeos, mame and roms on the drive (currently a secondary drive). I need to make it bootable to arcadeos after I swap the jumper to make it the primary drive.

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The drive will have to have been partitioned as a primary partition and made active before you can boot from it. (This may or may not be the case already depending on how it was setup originally)
Dexter:
Will fdisk across and check it out......

Cheers for the info!
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