On Sun, 24 Dec 2000 13:54:35 -0500, Glenn McCorkle wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Dec 2000 20:59:38 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
>> On Sat, 23 Dec 2000 16:19:57 -0800, rick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> "Once I
>>> transfer the DOS operating system to the HDD, will I be able to recover
>>> my
>>> original WIN 95 installation by booting to a WIN 95 system floppy and
>>> then
>>> transferring the WIN 95 operating system files back to the HDD by using
>>> the
>>> WIN 95 SYS command?"
> <snip>
<snip>
> Ok Sam. *Now* I understand what you want to do. <g>
> So, the answer to your question is.... Yes, it will work fine.
No, I have since learned that my proposal involving "sysing" and
"re-sysing" the operating system would be fraught with problems in trying
to deal with Windows 95 in this way. (It can be done, but it is not at all
that simple. You will have to do some very complicated stuff too.) This
method of simply "sysing" and "re-sysing" does work fine and everything
goes very smoothly when switching operating systems among ordinary and
normal and straight-up and properly behaved DOS versions, but not the DOS
version that comes with WIN95. I like your suggestion very much:
> However, I have a suggestion.
> Instead of making the HDD bootable with some other version of DOS and
> then putting it back to the way it was if you decide to run W95 again.
> 1) create a "DOS" directory on the HDD and copy all of your
> DOS-of-choice into it. (including COMMAND.COM)
> 2) boot from a floppy with *that* DOS on it and have this line in
a:\config.sys
> SHELL=C:\DOS\COMMAND.COM /E:1024 /P
> 3) remove the floppy from the drive (you won't need it for the remainder of
> this "session")
> This method is as close to 100% "safe" as you can get. <g>
This is indeed an excellent suggestion, Glenn, and I cannot imagine any
possible reason why it should not be safe. I wonder why I didn't also think
of this trick. I will indeed try what you have recommended. I have since
learned from a manual and also from others replying to my question that what
I was contemplating doing would not have been safe at all. I did have some
misgivings as to the safety of my proposed procedure, and for that reason I
sought advice and consulted manuals. BTW, I did not see your suggestion in
any manual, but I think it is the best I've seen on how to run your favorite
version of DOS after Windows 95 has been installed in an otherwise perfectly
good computer.
All the best,
Sam Heywood
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