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| Thenasty:
--- Quote from: Dexter on September 14, 2004, 06:45:35 am ---Its not a dual boot, just a standalone dos drive for inside a cocktail cab. So the command 'sys C:' will transfer the files from the flopy to the Hard Drive, yes? Dexter --- End quote --- This won't work if you had an NTFS partition to begin with. You have to remove the NON-DOS Partition and re-create it then format the drive with /s parameter. |
| Silver:
Thenasty is correct - but I went by your statement that you had set up a primary dos partition on the drive. the command will be work - but heres the catch - the sys command must be on the bootable dos floppy, and it is not always present. When yuo look for a floppy to download look for what utils it has - you will probbaly find one with it on. Or as spystyle says there are other versions of Dos - I have not used freedos but have heard good things... |
| Dexter:
Cheers for the assistance guys! |
| CthulhuLuke:
pop in your DOS bootdisk and run the little friendly program called Fdisk. It should pop up a nice UI that will guide you through deleting the old partition and putting a new Logical DOS Partition on the hard drive so you can boot off of dos on this thing. Also if you create the partition from fdisk, and your floppy for sure has the dos version you want to use, then just do a c: copy a:\*.* and your c will be loaded up with a nice dos system. |
| Silver:
sounds good, except I think you have to boot from a primary partition - a Logical one (created on an extended partition) may not be bootable. also the copy a:\*.* option will not alter the bootcode on the partition. This is not a file - its a small peice of code that tells the system which file to look for first. Hence the "NTLDR is missing" problem. copying the files over won't change this. The sys command will both copy the files and rewrite the correct bootcode for DOS. |
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