tr@wind.bellcore.com (tom reingold) (08/12/87)
There was discussion on the net from people who were having trouble
bringing up PC-DOS 3.3 from their hard disks. It seems that it
would boot from a floppy but not a hard. I ignored those messages
because they did not pertain to me. Now they do and I would like
to know how the problems were resolved.
The system is an old AT, made by IBM. It has the old keyboard and
I would bet that it is the original system, with a 6 Mhz crystal.
I have booted DOS 3.1 and 3.2, both from a floppy. Then I typed
A>sys c:
A>copy command.com c:
The computer would not boot from the hard disk, either with
Ctrl-Alt-Delete or with the red switch. I rebooted from a floppy,
which it would do gladly with any version of DOS, be it 3.1, 3.2,
or 3.3. I then renamed the config.sys file to something else to
make sure that that was not a problem. Still nothing.
Any ideas? Thanks much.
Tom Reingold
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