The XPS 7100 has SATA drives, for which you will probably have to turn on
IDE or BIOS emulation for DOS to recognize. Otherwise uide.sys/uhdd.sys
may help get your drives recognized (
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/ellis/drivers-2014-01-26.zip).
They'll need to be loaded before running fdisk.
On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 7:53 PM, Bill Haught <wlhaughtpr...@att.net> wrote:
> I need to reinstall Windows anyway, so I thought I'd try installing
> Freedos first since I have a USB flash drive that boots on two computers I
> have access to but not on my computer. I have already included my system
> information in the thread "Blinking Cursor when booting Freedos". I
> believe the problem two problems are related and boil down to BIOS settings
> or hardware incompatibility.
>
> "Install to harddisk" and "Create drive C:" reboots the computer. "Boot
> from system harddisk" works right, bringing up the GRUB menu.
>
> I have multiple partitions and would like to install to the one of my
> choice.
>
> Any Ideas? FAQs I should read?
>
>
> For convenience the system info is reposted:
>
>
> Dell XPS 7100 BIOS ver A06
> 64-bit processor: AMD Phenom II X6 1055T
> USB Flash Drive: TOSHIBA TransM
> How-to used: http://chtaube.eu/computers/freedos/bootable-usb/howto/
>
>
> BIOS settings:
> Secure Virtual Machine Mode: Enabled
> AMD Cool 'N' Quiet: Enabled
> USB Operation Mode: High Speed
> Numlock Key: On
> Keyboard Errors: Report
> ACPI Suspend Type: S3
> Remote Wake Up:Enabled
> AC Recovery: Power Off
> Auto Power On: Disabled
>
>
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