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Asked: 2021-11-02T00:02:16+00:00 In:

Problem Booting To Windows 3.11 From DOS

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Hi. I have just installed Dos 6.22 on to an old hard drive and installed windows 3.11 original diskettes on top of dos.
After instillation completed successfully I re-booted the computer, typed “win” as instructed, but it will not go past the Windows Logo screen every time. Dos is working perfectly I can edit use help etc. How do I get around the problem? I,v checked the Autoexec.bat files in C:\ , C:\dos and C:\windows and all are different. Can any one “HELP”?

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      Correct me when I misunderstand your intentions as to recover the data on at least 5 (maybe 6) drives. Now I start the 20 questions thing.

      The boot drive was the only problem…all the rest of the drives are OK?

      You probably have data on the failed boot drive you want to recover?

      Do you have the key for the XP Pro installation on the failed boot drive?

      Do you have access to a good working machine running XP or later?

      …where I’m going with this:

      You should only need a good hdd and an installation of XP to get your pc up and running. Assuming your other hdd’s are OK, all the data on those drives should be good to go.

      If the failed drive works, a USB adapter something like this one would allow you to recover your pics, music, documents, etc.

      http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ…

      Your DOS odyssey will take you places you don’t want to go traveling the FAT16, FAT32 road and trying to recover NTFS drive files.

      My guess is, at worst, you need a new boot drive, a XP install cd, and a few hours jof your time.

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