http://www.programmersheaven.com/ Contains the latest posts from the thread 'Dos boot Hard drive failure' posted on the 'MS-DOS' forum at Programmer's Heaven. en Copyright 2013 Programmers Heaven Sat, 25 May 2013 16:06:02 -0700 Sat, 25 May 2013 16:06:02 -0700 Argotic Syndication Framework 2007.3.0.1, http://www.codeplex.com/Argotic http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 360 http://www.programmersheaven.com/images/ph.gif http://www.programmersheaven.com/ 88 31 http://www.programmersheaven.com/mb/MS-DOS/421448/421448/dos-boot-hard-drive--failure/ I'm trying to boot an harddrive into dos 6.22, i format the harddrive after booting into dos 6.22 form a disk, i run format c:/s. after that if i reboot on the disk, a can acces the harddrive, and see the command.com, but i can't boot on the harddrive, i always receive the message "hard drive failure"<br /> What's wrong?<br /> http://www.programmersheaven.com/mb/MS-DOS/421448/421448/dos-boot-hard-drive--failure/ Wed, 02 Feb 2011 20:56:09 -0700 MS-DOS http://www.programmersheaven.com/mb/MS-DOS/421448/421568/re-dos-boot-hard-drive--failure/#421568 DOS 6.22 needs a fat 16 partition (2 GB upper limit); if that's ok, try booting from the floppy and typing fdisk /mbr and then sys c: <br /> <br /> The above shouldn't be used if you're using a partition manager, have a dual install, or more than 4 (I think it was) partitions.<br /> <br /> It's possible the MBR is damaged.<br /> http://www.programmersheaven.com/mb/MS-DOS/421448/421568/re-dos-boot-hard-drive--failure/#421568 Mon, 07 Feb 2011 11:02:30 -0700 MS-DOS http://www.programmersheaven.com/mb/MS-DOS/421448/423867/this-post-has-been-deleted/#423867 This post has been deleted. http://www.programmersheaven.com/mb/MS-DOS/421448/423867/this-post-has-been-deleted/#423867 Tue, 17 May 2011 09:03:30 -0700 MS-DOS