> Yes, something is wrong.
I tried the only updating the boot sector using FreeDOS' SYS and got;
D:\Download\FreeDOS>sys X: BOOTONLY FreeDOS System Installer v2.9, Sep 24 2003
Processing boot sector... Reading old bootsector from drive X:
Divide overflow
WinXP throws up an error message because I'm trying to directly access hardware, but I'm allowed to ignore & proceed.
Yikes.
You really should be doing all of this stuff from a successful boot of some stable DOS system ... and definitely outside of Windows XP. Unfortunately, test performed from within XP won't have a clear meaning since Windows could be doing anything.
If you can burn a CD-R, grab a FreeDOS ISO and burn it then boot it ... or if not, but you have a diskette drive, grab the diskette .IMG file and write it to a floppy ...
http://www.freedos.org/freedos/files/
All the best,
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