Message-Id:	<199702011410.AA19023@mail.crl.com>
From:	"Weiqi Gao" <weiqigao AT crl DOT com>
To:	<opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net>
Subject:	Re: [opendos] Can't load DOS from harddrive after installing Open DOS!
Date:	Sat, 1 Feb 1997 08:11:04 -0600
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Steve Clark <sclark74 AT dreamscape DOT com> wrote:

>Well, I installed Open DOS on my desktop computer the other day and got
>myself into big trouble.  The installation went fine except for the fact
>that during installation I received an error message saying that it
couldn't
>find a particular file.  I pressed escape to continue the installation
>without this file.  After the installation was complete I chose to reboot
>the operating system.  When it rebooted I got the message "Cannot load DOS
>press key to retry".  Then when I pressed a key it rebooted again and did
>the same thing.
>
>So then I tried booting up using a boot diskette previously created with
SYS
>and this worked fine!Once I got the old DOS loaded booting from the A
drive,
>I tried running the Open DOS uninstall program.  When I did this, however,
>it said that it couldn't find the data files that it needs to uninstall
Open
>DOS and therefore could not continue.  So now what do I do?  Any help
would
>be much appreciated.  Thanks.

If your old DOS is MS-DOS, the data files you need to go back to it are
saved as hidden files with names @*.ui in your root directory.  They are
copies of the old io.sys, msdos.sys, autoexec.bat, config.sys, and the
master boot record.  You can put them back into their old places to boot to
the old DOS.  This only applies if you installed OpenDOS on the first hard
drive (C:) and only if your old DOS is MS-DOS.  I don't know how OpenDOS
handles a Windows 95 system.

Another thing you can do is to boot with the MS-DOS boot floppy you created
with SYS A: before you installed OpenDOS.  When MS-DOS is booted, do a SYS
A:\ C: to make your C: drive boot MS-DOS again.

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Weiqi Gao
weiqigao AT crl DOT com

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