Computer Whiz's I need help Please?
Can I wipe the Hard Drive Blank on the computer that has DOS on it then download DOS off of a working computer I have and reinstall it in english? If so how do I completely clean out the Hard Drive? The BIOS is in English but all else is spanish and there is no language option change?
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you need to make a DOS system floppy disk first from the DOS system.
c:\sys a:
Then copy few files like fdisk, format, etc to the new dos disk.
Boot to the DOS floppy disk, run fdisk, delete all partitions, create a new partition, run format (format c:). You will also need to make the primary partition bootable/system if it is not already. You should be able to figure it out from the fdisk command. If you neglect this step, the c drive will not boot.
Then make the c drive a system disk (bootable) from the floppy drive:
a:\sys c:
Then create a directory called "dos", copy all the files from the old system into this one.
BTW: Dos does not support large disks, you will be limited I think to 4GB? I am not sure - Google it!0 -
Yes... and No.
You can format your drive with no problems. Reloading can't be done off another machine because you won't be able to boot yours after the format... Unless you do a <format/s>. Which will be just fine for an old DOS system, but won't anymore work in the real world.
Best you load Win98 at minimum. Better Win2000 if the old clunker is up to it.
After all is said and done, why not just spend a minimal amount of jing and replace the old machine? Much cheaper in both the long and short run.0 -
Well the application Im useing it for requires DOS to work. We have XP, I just need the DOS part and a serial port. 0 -
What is it that you are really trying to do? Do you have a system running XP and an old DOS based application that works with it? Or do you have a true DOS6.22 or some other DOS version running on a system that you want to move?
You can move "real" DOS from system to system with the steps I outlined above. But if your native O/S is 95/xp, there are other steps that you need to take. 95 uses version 7 of "DOS".
Most applications that are designed for use with "DOS" will work with 95/98/2000/xp etc.. Just install and they should just work.0 -
I need a simple DOS system to do programing, if you boot up XP etc in DOS Mode the programing software will not operate. But any version of DOS will work. Ive got one working computer with DOS 6.22 on it, the computer I bought is in spanish except for the BIOS. I would like to delete the spanish and reload it with the english version of DOS. But we cant figure out how to delete the Hard Drive with the spanish on it to put english o it. All it will ever be used for is programing. 0 -
you can use FDISK.EXE to delete all partitions on the hard drive, reboot, and create a new one, then use FORMAT.EXE to format it.
or you could use DEBUG.EXE and follow a debug script to erase everything first, then use FDISK.EXE to create a new partition and FORMAT.EXE to format it.
you'd have to look up the specifics. I'm too lazy to go over step-by-step instructions.
if you want it in english instead of spanish, don't install DOS, install TWO next time0 -
DOS programs don't always work in the MS-DOS window you get with XP, 2K, or ME cuz that's not true DOS. you do get a true DOS window with 98 or 95, if you want to go through the trouble to install and maintain windows just to run your DOS progs.
you'd do good to make it a dedicated DOS box, using EMM, personalized autoexec.bat and config.exe, backfilling the upper mem blocks and all that jazz. get a used A+ study book up till 2000 or so, and it will tell you exactly how.
you would learn how to limulate!0 -
Just use DOSBox. Its a DOS emulator. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by Nighthawk
I need a simple DOS system to do programing, if you boot up XP etc in DOS Mode the programing software will not operate. But any version of DOS will work. Ive got one working computer with DOS 6.22 on it, the computer I bought is in spanish except for the BIOS. I would like to delete the spanish and reload it with the english version of DOS. But we cant figure out how to delete the Hard Drive with the spanish on it to put english o it. All it will ever be used for is programing.
If you've got a working system with 6.22, your set! Just follow my steps above and it'll be a cynch. There may be a gotcha if the system has an extended partition formatted in NTFS. If so, post again, and I'll tell you how to get rid of it. The signs will be that you can't delete the partition with 6.22 fdisk.0 -
you can also use DEBUG.EXE to delete NTFS partitions, just use another debug script 0
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