Date: Sat, 1 Feb 1997 16:45:11 -0500 (EST)
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From: Steve Clark <sclark74 AT dreamscape DOT com>
Subject: Re: [opendos] Can't load DOS from harddrive after installing
  Open DOS!
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Hi,

Thanks for the response.  I was able to fix the problem by using SYS on
drive A, like you suggested.  Since my hard drive is compressed, I had to
copy the system files to the host drive instead.  Once I did this everything
was fine.  

At 08:11 AM 2/1/97 -0600, you wrote:
>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.
>
>--
>Weiqi Gao
>weiqigao AT crl DOT com
>
>
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