allen@gitpyr.UUCP (06/02/87)
A friend of mine is upgrading to DOS 3.3. He is worried that the SYS command cause problems when he tries to move the system files onto his hard disk. Have the invisible system files changed in size ? Will he have to re-format hist hard disk to load DOS 3.3 or will the SYS command correctly update the system files ? Thanks, P. Allen Jensen
tfra@ur-tut.UUCP (Tom Frauenhofer) (06/03/87)
[Et tu, line-eater?] In <3676@gitpyr.gatech.EDU>, P. Allen Jensen writes: > A friend of mine is upgrading to DOS 3.3. He is worried that the > SYS command cause problems when he tries to move the system files > onto his hard disk. Have the invisible system files changed in size ? > Will he have to re-format hist hard disk to load DOS 3.3 or will the > SYS command correctly update the system files ? He shouldn't have to reformat his hard disk. On the other hand, in the latest issue of Infoworld, an executive at IBM is quoted as saying that there is a problem using PC-DOS 3.3 on non-ibm hardware (specifically, non-IBM hard disk hardware). Anybody out there notice this problem? -- Tom Frauenhofer ...!seismo!rochester!ur-tut!tfra "The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity." -- Harlan Ellison
brown@nicmad.UUCP (06/05/87)
In article <3676@gitpyr.gatech.EDU> allen@gitpyr.gatech.EDU (P. Allen Jensen) writes:
<A friend of mine is upgrading to DOS 3.3. He is worried that the
<SYS command cause problems when he tries to move the system files
<onto his hard disk. Have the invisible system files changed in size ?
<Will he have to re-format hist hard disk to load DOS 3.3 or will the
<SYS command correctly update the system files ?
If upgrading from 2.0 or 2.1 the hard disk will have to be backed up and
then reformatted with 3.30.
If upgrading from any 3.x, then just do the SYS command.
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