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From: sl148033@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (Kevin_Clendenien)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Making a PC-XT hard-disk bootable again...
Message-ID: <2898@silver.bacs.indiana.edu>
Date: 2 Jan 89 18:40:43 GMT
References: <13186@duke.cs.duke.edu>
Reply-To: sl148033@silver.UUCP (Kevin_Clendenien)
Organization: Indiana University BACS, Bloomington
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In article <13186@duke.cs.duke.edu> gm@romeo.cs.duke.edu (Greg McGary) writes:
>* Can I truly accomplish my original goal of `upgrading' to DOS 3.30
>  bootable from C: & if so, how?
>
>* If that won't do, how can I restore DOS 2.10 to bootability on C:
>  without having to reformat the disk?
I don't know about DOS 2.10, but with DOS 3.30 you would use the FDISK
command.  When you put DOS 3.30 onto the harddisk, did you also leave
DOS 2.10 on the harddisk?  Anyway, there is an option inside of FDISK
to make a partition active.  This is how you specify which partition
you want to have the harddisk boot.  So, if you had several operating
systems on you harddisk, you would have to specify a particular partition
as active before it would boot.  Try using FDISK to make your DOS 3.30
partition active, and then reboot the computer.
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sl148033@silver.UUCP                          Kevin B. Clendenien
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