From: jac1 (jac1 at domain student.cs.ucc.ie)
Date: Wed 29 Aug 2001 - 13:09:01 IST
Did you re-write the MBR?
fdisk /mbr (or something like that)
I had trouble with this before, 'sys c:' doesn't write the MBR
(on M$ DOS anyway). HTH
James
>===== Original Message From Niall O Broin <niall at domain linux.ie> =====
>As I said, this is absolutely and completely OT but you can regard it as a
>little charity gig, if any of you can help me. A neighbour asked me if I had
>an old hard drive to put in her 86 year old father's PC (the father's 86,
>not the PC, though it's not far short). To cut a long story short, I now
>have the PC. Its own hard drive appears OK in that I can boot from a 'doze
>floppy and have a look around. However, the hard disk won't boot. I'm
>confident that if I had a bootable floppy I'd be able to simply do a SYS C:
>and the old dude would be happily playing Solitaire and Freecell again,
>which is all he does with it.
>
>However, the box has 'doze 3.x on it, and IBM DOS 5.0, and although I've a
>lot of junk hanging around, I don't have IBM DOS 5.0. So, here's the begging
>part - if anyone has an old box hanging around running IBM DOS 5.0 (I know,
>I'm pushing it) would they be so kind as to make a bootable floppy (FORMAT
>A: /S, in case it's been a long time), dd the floppy into a file, gzip said
>file and mail it to me. You'll make an old man very happy (two, if you count
>me who'll be quite happy to get this particular monkey off his back).
>
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>Regards,
>
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>
>Niall
>
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