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| 1129946 | 2010-08-20 08:34:00 | I was formating using win 2000 on a laptop and the power went out, when i started it back up again it - starts off saying " Starting Caldera DR DOS - then goes through a lot of stuff and ends up with [DR-DOS] A :\ >. I have tried to reset the boot order to cd first but it won't do it just keeps on repeating the above, really appreciate any help. thank you. |
Leslie (14058) | ||
| 1129947 | 2010-08-20 08:36:00 | It's looking for a DOS boot diskette I think since A is usually a floppy drive. | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1129948 | 2010-08-20 08:45:00 | Thanks very much for your reply, this is my neices laptop and i was trying to help her out, this thing hasn't got a floppy drive to boot from, even if i knew what to do, i am really stumped. | Leslie (14058) | ||
| 1129949 | 2010-08-20 08:54:00 | Is this an original 2k CD?? Or did someone burn an ISO of it? Whats the model/brand of the laptop? | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1129950 | 2010-08-20 09:24:00 | Nar its not the original cd buy the looks of it,they say its their copy of the original,[ i hope thats legal ] the laptop/notebook is a Compaq Presario M2000 | Leslie (14058) | ||
| 1129951 | 2010-08-20 09:46:00 | Leslie, What were you formatting? A floppy disk? Or the hard drive? Were you trying to reinstall Win2K to the hard drive? |
coldot (6847) | ||
| 1129952 | 2010-08-20 10:05:00 | I would say that you don't have Win2k on that disk :eek: en.wikipedia.org The last Lineo version was OEM DR-DOS 7.04/7.05, still branded as "Caldera DR-DOS".[7][8] This was an embedded system consisting only of the kernel and command shell. It was built for Seagate Technology's Seatools, with a buggy implementation of FAT32 and large hard disk support.[9 |
feersumendjinn (64) | ||
| 1129953 | 2010-08-20 19:26:00 | Thanks everyone for your help, all is good now, they gave me the original win 2000 disc last night and no problems now, everything is back to normal. thanks again guys, very much appreciated. |
Leslie (14058) | ||
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