Re: Revert to dos
Also, be sure that your C drive is set to active status. You can see that in DOS fdisk, and change it if needed (set active partition). Tom
Re: [Revert to dos]
Well...as usual it didn't work. I tried the fdisk /mbr command. And it didn't do ANYTHING to my computer. I still can't change my partition information at ALL. So the Fdisk /mbr option didn't fix it. My computer still locks up at the beginning. I don't even get any error messages like missing o/s. Plus the fact I have to hard boot the system everytime it does that. Anyone else can help? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: fdisk /mbr (in dos) will restore your master boot record to the way Bill Gates wants it. I had Hamm previously installed on my laptop, which is for the record a Toshiba T4400C. I want to go back to DOS. I've tried to go back to DOS by repartitioning in Linux so that I only have 1 partition which is the C drive...and that's a DOS FAT16 (big) partition. Now when I then go into DOS fdisk, and try to parition it there. It'll reboot but then it will NOT change ANY partition information. It's like it's locked like that. And then when I reformat drive C with Dos format, it'll reformat (using the /s option) so that i can get the system transferred properly, then when I reboot, my computer will not boot from the hard drive at all. It'll just lock up. And I have tried clean operating systems so I know it's not the disks. What do I have to do to be able to boot from DOS 6.22 once again, without any linux stuff on my HD? Thanks much! Nils =O) [EMAIL PROTECTED] You could trouble me for a nice warm glass of shut up! http://members.tripod.com/YouthRAGE/ Get free e-mail and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1
Re: [Revert to dos]
On Sat, 13 Feb 1999, Nils Lorvick wrote: Well...as usual it didn't work. I tried the fdisk /mbr command. And it didn't do ANYTHING to my computer. I still can't change my partition information at ALL. So the Fdisk /mbr option didn't fix it. My computer still locks up at the beginning. I don't even get any error messages like missing o/s. Plus the fact I have to hard boot the system everytime it does that. Anyone else can help? What I would do is boot the linux rescue floppy and get to a shell and fdisk from there to set up your partitions. Once you've done that, do a dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hd?? bs=1024 count=1 then reboot, with a dos boot floppy, execute fdisk /mbr, format each dos partition with the /s option (format c: /s). The reason for the dd line is dos for some reason requires 5?? bytes of zeros at the beginning of its partition. Rather than look up the number (I'm pretty sure it's not something sensible like 512) I just suggested 1024 bytes of zeros. It wants this before it will recognize the partition as it's own and sys it. good luck. -Dan Brosemer
Revert to dos
I had Hamm previously installed on my laptop, which is for the record a Toshiba T4400C. I want to go back to DOS. I've tried to go back to DOS by repartitioning in Linux so that I only have 1 partition which is the C drive...and that's a DOS FAT16 (big) partition. Now when I then go into DOS fdisk, and try to parition it there. It'll reboot but then it will NOT change ANY partition information. It's like it's locked like that. And then when I reformat drive C with Dos format, it'll reformat (using the /s option) so that i can get the system transferred properly, then when I reboot, my computer will not boot from the hard drive at all. It'll just lock up. And I have tried clean operating systems so I know it's not the disks. What do I have to do to be able to boot from DOS 6.22 once again, without any linux stuff on my HD? Thanks much! Nils =O) [EMAIL PROTECTED] You could trouble me for a nice warm glass of shut up! http://members.tripod.com/YouthRAGE/ Get free e-mail and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1
Revert to dos
fdisk /mbr (in dos) will restore your master boot record to the way Bill Gates wants it. I had Hamm previously installed on my laptop, which is for the record a Toshiba T4400C. I want to go back to DOS. I've tried to go back to DOS by repartitioning in Linux so that I only have 1 partition which is the C drive...and that's a DOS FAT16 (big) partition. Now when I then go into DOS fdisk, and try to parition it there. It'll reboot but then it will NOT change ANY partition information. It's like it's locked like that. And then when I reformat drive C with Dos format, it'll reformat (using the /s option) so that i can get the system transferred properly, then when I reboot, my computer will not boot from the hard drive at all. It'll just lock up. And I have tried clean operating systems so I know it's not the disks. What do I have to do to be able to boot from DOS 6.22 once again, without any linux stuff on my HD? Thanks much!
