{"id":7996,"date":"2021-11-25T13:27:05","date_gmt":"2021-11-25T13:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lgildv5i97.onrocket.site\/answers\/?post_type=question&#038;p=7996"},"modified":"2021-11-25T13:27:28","modified_gmt":"2021-11-25T13:27:28","slug":"solved-bios-recognizes-hard-drive-but-dos-doesnt","status":"publish","type":"question","link":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/dos\/bios-recognizes-hard-drive-but-dos-doesnt\/18108.html","title":{"rendered":"Solved Bios Recognizes Hard Drive But Dos Doesnt."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi there. Just formatted my C: on an old 486 and started a fresh install of Windows 3.1, went fine until the restart part. After i restarted the computer, it will not boot to C even though the BIOS recognizes it. I have messed with the boot order and several other bios settings but it will not access the C drive. Any time i start the computer up it says invalid boot disk, whether or not theres a disk in A:, or even if i unplug the drive altogether. The only DOS boot disk i have is for version 3.1, any time i type in C: it says &#8220;invalid drive specification&#8221;&#8230;i know C is there, why wont it recognize it? Specs are 80mhz 486, 1gb hard drive&#8230;thanks, hope somebody can help me with this! Driving me crazy&#8230;just wanna use windows!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"iawp_total_views":8},"question-category":[60],"question_tags":[],"class_list":["post-7996","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry","question-category-dos"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question\/7996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/question"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"question-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question-category?post=7996"},{"taxonomy":"question_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question_tags?post=7996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}