On 7 Feb 98 at 22:21, Wayne&Tammy wrote:
> When the machine boots, it gives me a "missing operating system" error.
>
> Yes, I made sure the drive worked fine in the original machine, and yes,
> it was set as the active partition.
>
> When I boot from a floppy, and check the disk, it is there with all the
> appropriate files (msdos.sys, io.sys, command.com, etc..).
I had a problem similar to this a while back. On a machine running
OSR2, I chose "boot to old OS" from the boot menu to get into DOS
6.22.
The fix was to boot from an OSR2 boot floppy, and use SYS to
re-write the boot files on the hard drive, ignoring warnings about
them being a different version. I don't quite understand what 6.22
thinks it's doing, overwriting them on boot, but apparently it does.
David G
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