> On May 1, 2020, at 7:33 PM, A BM <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, I am still having problems. I burn the image to the bootable usb. I > start the computer and install on the hard drive. Just then the computer > restarts but it returns to Windows 10, it doesn't seem to have installed > anything. If I tell the BIOS to start from USB, the Freedos installer no > longer appears, but Freedos loads. But if I remove the USB, as I said before, > start Windows, no trace of Freedos. I have tried the Freedos Standard image > and the USB image, using rufus, it remains the same. Thank you.
It sounds like the HDD may not be visible to the installer when you boot it from USB and it manages to install itself to the free (and unpartitioned) space that remains on the USB stick. Here are a couple things to check…. 1) Is there free and unpartitioned (or partitioned and formatted for DOS) space on the internal hard disk? 2) When you boot the installer USB stick, quit and return to the DOS prompt. Can you find the internal HDD as C:, D:, E: or some other drive letter? 3) If the internal drive does not appear as a drive letter, can you locate it using fdisk and partition/format it manually? 4) Once the internal drive is visible to the booted USB stick, make a note of the drive letter. Then run the installer in advanced mode and tell it to install to that disk. WARNING: You have Windows installed on the internal drive. Unless you run the installer in advanced mode AND tell it not to update the MBR, you risk overwriting the master boot record on the internal drive. That would make only FreeDOS bootable and more or less make Windows inaccessible. Without updating the MBR, only Windows will boot and you will then need to install a Boot Loader (like Grub) to be able to dual boot the computer. If you accidentally disable Windows booting while installing FreeDOS, you may be able to fix the issue by restoring one of the backed up boot sectors stored in the FreeDOS directory that the installer creates during installation. Otherwise, you will probably need to use your Windows DVD and perform a system repair. Personally, I think I would prefer just using the USB stick as my FreeDOS HDD. It should be plenty fast enough and big enough to hold nearly anything I’d want to do in DOS. It would also be portable and could be used on different computers. _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
