By mistake i changed the active partition in dos os and now my laptop is not booting and just giving the message "MISSING OPERATING SYSTEM". My laptop came with dos os only and am not able to install any other OS now as the size of the drive shown now is just 870MB. Please do help me out
Hello,
when i try to copy files such as msdos.sys from boot disk to root har disk, i get a "0 file(s) copied".
Any idea of what could solve this?
Thanks in advance
NB: pardon my english :)
I am confused among these 3 laptops..
1. Lenovo Essential G580 (59-348965) Laptop (3rd Gen Ci5/ 4GB/ 500GB/ DOS/ 1 GB Graph)
2. HP Pavilion G6-2016TX Laptop (3rd Gen Ci5/ 4GB/ 500GB/ Win7 HB/ 1GB Graph)
3. Asus K53SM-SX010D Laptop (2nd Gen Ci5/ 4GB/ 750GB/ DOS/ 2GB Graph)
Please help me which...
Anyone still have a copy of calliope for dos? It played cmd files and midi's if I remember right. That was my first computerized music player, and I would love to get it back.
http://www.shchuka.com/software/itunescoder/index.html
i wanted the mp3 merger and this s/w was included when i open it the
dos screen shots down after 1 second haw to use this s/w ?
and is it important to use with the merger ? they included it in the merger file .
i clicked it anyway . did...
Hello,
there is one folder in pendrive with name DCIM. through DOS i am able to view that folder and other subfolders in that. but, the said folder is not visible in windows. i tried copy the contents of the folder to D drive. msg shown as file copied but when opened that D drive, no files are...
I've been gaming in DOS since I was a kid. Had my last 486 about 6 years ago, and DOSbox just doesn't cut it for me. Virtualbox was nice for a while, but I wanted to boot into real DOS, not an emulator or virtual environment.
I found out the other day that with Qemu I was able to point to a...
hi i am maqbool . pls help me my acer aspire 5741g battery not charging 100% it says plugged in charging but not 100% till 91% only i update my bios from acer site v1.02 from the bios section. notebook, aspire , 5741g , bios section , v1.02 i updated it . it is still not charging . in the read...
I have a newer computer which I've loaded DOS 6.22 onto.
How can I use my USB Flash stick?
Can I address it in config.sys & autoexec.bat using mscdex.exe?
Hello, After a vista update, laptop will not boot even into dos? the start screen 'Acer' appears, blue bar loads then screen goes black.Laptop will not boot to dos or safw mode anbackup failes as well? Any Ideas? thanks for reading - Paul
i just downloaded Navrátil Software System Information from this website http://navsoft.cz/
it claims that it can be used in dos. how do i do this?
i have copied the exe on to a floppy disk and when i selected the fdd in the boot menu it says that it isnt a bootable disk.
so how do i use NSSI...
Hello,
I'm trying to run a serial port program under dos 6.22. This program has worked for over 25 years without problems until I was forced to use a circa 2010 computer, Serial communications stop if I hit a key on keyboard.
Please help. I tried changing bios setting. Bios is ami 08.00.15...
Redesigning a Web site is an enormous risk. Companies spend time and money, only to watch users revolt, as Digg found out the hard way. Why do some designs fail and some work?
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Hi All,
I need to be able to boot into dos from a samsung netbook. It currently has windows XP installed on it.
The reason I need it to boot to dos is test is to test ram memory modules.
I have been using a hiren boot cd to on my desktop, unfortunetly this is netbook and does not have a cd...
I have built a DOS 6.22 system, on a newer computer and want to be able to use the USB ports on the computer under DOS. Is there a driver to do that with?
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I am trying to create an image foe the CF-30, I am unable to find the DOS drivers for the NIDS Generic Marvell Yukon chipset based Ethernet controller, I have everything else created for the ghosting image. Please note that this is not a gigabite card and this has to be done in DOS. If anyone...
Can anyone tell me where I can find DOS3.31? I have an old program and an old system that I would really like to play with again but my old DOS disks don't work anymore. :)
Hi,
I've been trying to get some DOS menu's working to make some things at my work easyier. But i can't get them to work proper. The problems started when i wanted to open a second menu (bat) with the first menu.
I found some old threads here on Tom's Hardware from somewhere in 2002 but those...
hi, i have a compaq presario m2000 with a cd drive, but no floppy. i assume i can't load dos 6.22 on it without a floppy. or is there a way to do it from cd? i also assume that a usb floppy won't work because dos won't have the usb drivers.
so can anyone help me?
begging................
I have a Toshiba Tecra A8 ez8313 laptop and need to clear my system registry in dos screen.. I get to the point where i start PC with command prompts and hit enter but all that does is run a list og the loading drivers and then starts the PC in safe mode ...I cant get it to go to the C:\...
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Sorry if it's a daft question, but I wondered if it's possible to run a
small dos program on an IPaq 1710.
Does anyone anywhere know of anybody who successfully uses USB2 with DOS? For example, you can hook up an ordinary h/d with a USB2-IDE adapter, and then plug that into your USB2 slot and your h/d looks just like it was connected as a second (D:) drive (to your secondary IDE channel). You can...
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Is it possible to run an old DOS appl. on PPC2003? It is a program which is
1,5MB and the data file is 10 MB.
Is this possible?
Thanx,
Michael
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Both PPC and HPC CE users have available this software. I may have
mentioned this before but I keep on pondering buying PocketDOS for
running old DOS apps that I used in my earlier computing days. Is...
I want to be able to veiw my windows partition (win 2k fat32) from dos. The hard drive is a little less than 15gb (if that is relevant) and the dos partition is 1.95gb (primary active partition). I however do not want to install a diffrent variation of dos (such as DR.dos) is their any driver...
I am looking to complete the building of a Linux box from accumulated parts. Part of my setup is an old Plextor SCSI CD drive (4/2/20) hooked to a Vesa Local Bus Adaptec AHA 2842A SCSI card.
I am ready to install Linux, but have received NO HELP from either Plextor support (told me to talk to...
Hey guys,
my DOS skills are starting to rust a little, so here's my problem: My neighbour lovea the old-style role playing games under DOS, suck as Ultima UnderWorld for example.
I built his computer about 2 years ago, with a Pentium III 800MHz and Intel 815 Mobo. He has a Creative SB 16 PCI...
Can anyone recommend a DOS based PC diagnostic software. Something very thorough, please.
Many thanks,
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Time stands still for no upgrader.
I have a neighbor who has an old file system (DOS) called PFS: Professional File System, that she has been using for years to produce a book. Now she has a new PC (WINXP) and wants to convert those files to something useful under windows. I have been unable to find a way of translating them...
I am having trouble getting a DHCP lease Network boot disk created with Network Client Administrator (NT Server 4). The problem is intermittent and I believe the cause is our 3rd Party, DOS based DHCP server. Anyone ever have this problem? Anyone know of a good third party utility for...
I have a HP vectra LS/12 286 and the HD is completely clean. I'd like to install Dos onto the HD. There is a 3.5 floppy drive, but I need the dos installation disks. Can anyone send me the installation files so that I can put them on disk and install it. I was thinking dos 6.22, but what...