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Help: wrong DOS boot disk
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Name: Robert
Date: February 16, 2000 at 08:14:36 Pacific
Subject: Help: wrong DOS boot disk |
Comment: I'm trying to restore an old PC. It has a version of DOS on it, but I don't think it
was set up properly. I made a system disk from another PC (DOS 6.22a). It gives me a
prompt with this but many commands don't work.I get wrong DOS VERSION message. How can I find out which DOS version is on the PC, since it only reads the version on the floppy
disk?
Any help greatly appreciated.
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Response Number 1
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Name: unisol
Date: February 16, 2000 at 10:06:09 Pacific
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Reply: Type ver to see which version you
are running
Use setver /? to solve the
compatibility problem
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Response Number 2
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Name: MC
Date: February 16, 2000 at 12:01:49 Pacific
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Reply: Unisol
Problem with the ver command is it only tells you the OS in memory. i.e. The one on the boot disk!
Robert
What is the file date/time of your command.com, this will hopfully tell us the version. Once you know which version is on the hard disk. You may be able to fix the problem.
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Response Number 3
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Name: MC
Date: February 17, 2000 at 15:06:53 Pacific
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Reply: From your e-mail message, The date of your command.com (03-10-93 6:00a) says that you have MS-DOS 6.0 loaded on your hard drive.
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Response Number 4
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Name: Robert
Date: February 20, 2000 at 18:20:58 Pacific
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Reply: Thanks to everyone who replied, especially
M.C. I did contact Dan the Man and he sent
the disks. The old PC is working again.
Be sure to check out Dan's Abandonware at
www.safelink.net/danrose/abandonware.html
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