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- From: hymowitz@whatever.cs.jhu.edu (Spaceman Spiff)
- Subject: re-installing msdos 5.0
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.123057.5659@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>
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- Reply-To: hymowitz@cs.jhu.edu (Spaceman Spiff)
- Organization: Creative Sensualities dept, Jacquie's House of Underwear
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 12:30:57 GMT
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- hello all...
-
- today i repartitioned and reformatted my hard drive. no problem. i
- restored the backup that i had done minutes before. no problem. then i
- tried to reboot off the hard disk. problem.
-
- i have a copy of msdos 5.0 in the /dos directory. i have, in c:\,
- command.com, io.sys (sys hid), msdos.sys (sys hid), and wina20.386 (sys r-o)
- and i have command.com in \dos (this is what command.com points to.)
- is it necessary to re-install dos 5.0, or can i somehow 'remind' the
- hard drive that it is bootable.
-
- fdisk reports status code of 'a' on the hard drive's msdos partition.
-
- the problem with re-installing dos is that i need spare blank disks, and
- i just don't have any to spare right now (bad idea, i know).
- any advice/suggestions/answers/flames?
-
- post or email, i go both ways. thanx in advance.
-
- --hymie
- hymowitz@cs.jhu.edu hymie@jhuvms.bitnet
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