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| Thread ID: 38563 | 2003-10-11 05:45:00 | Please load win 95 | Megaman (344) | Press F1 |
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| 182258 | 2003-11-06 04:12:00 | > Set the active partition back to your C drive i would if i knew how. kinda hard with no operating system active |
Megaman (344) | ||
| 182259 | 2003-11-06 04:13:00 | yeah well it was for my old games that will install on virtually no hd space. | Megaman (344) | ||
| 182260 | 2003-11-06 04:37:00 | If the floppy drive is dead, how were you going to load DOS4? Anyway, you might still be able to recover . If you boot with a W98 CD, you will be able to use FDISK to make the 7GB partition the active one . Do that; do nothing else with FDISK . This will not do any damage . Thinking about it, if you just created that 55MB (enormous for a DOS partition :D) that won't have damaged your 7 GB W95 partition; it was making the 55MB one the active one which stopped you from booting . (Unless you deleted all partitions then made a 55 MB then a new 7 GB one --- in that case it would be all over) . |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 182261 | 2003-11-06 07:55:00 | the floppy is dead, however i can burn floppies-2-CDs, and the 20x CD-ROM is alive and well. and before it killed the computer fdisk said there was 2 partitions, WIN 95 and an empty, unformatted 55mb new drive. | Megaman (344) | ||
| 182262 | 2003-11-06 09:12:00 | As an aside, dos 4 was the worst version of dos ever issued, if you must use an old dos use version 5 or preferably 6.22. However I assume version 4 is all you have?? Men are four; :) :) |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 182263 | 2003-11-07 02:17:00 | > However I assume version 4 is all > you have?? Ummmm... No. i was planning to check if i could borrow the schools or buy a copy :p |
Megaman (344) | ||
| 182264 | 2003-11-07 04:57:00 | OK, here is a way to get a perfectly legal full copy of dos 6.22. First go to bootdisk.com and download a dos 6.22 bootdisk, it is called boot622.exe. Run it from Windows with a blank floppy in your floppy drive, sorry you will just have to fork out a few dollars for a working one, and it will make a boot floppy with all the system files and several usef other dos programs. Use this to transfer the dos system to c: on a hard drive. The boot disk has CDROM support. On a win95 or win98 CD there is a folder called oldmsdos. It is in Tools. Make a directory called DOS on your C: drive and copy all the files from oldmsdos. Then copy all the files from the boot floppy that you havent yet copied from oldmsdos to DOS directory, especially not forgetting himem.sys. You dont need to copy the autoexec.bat or config.sys as you will make your own in C:\ using a text editor. In your autoexec.bat make sure you have a path set like; path c:\;c:\dos www.bootdisk.com |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 182265 | 2003-11-14 08:21:00 | flag this. it will work at dads work as he has a terminal server and his workstation spech are the same as mine | Megaman (344) | ||
| 182266 | 2003-11-14 08:50:00 | Have you spotted your error in post 1? Setting the partition you created as "active" your pc is trying to boot off it that is why you get the dash. You need to reset your c: as active and all will be well with the world. Where do you live? If you are close I can drop of a spare fdd. | mark.p (383) | ||
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