---- Le ven., 04 oct. 2024 20:24:30 -0400 Michael Rakijas via Freedos-user a écrit ---- > I have an old HP Omnibook 4100 which is a Pentium II 233 notebook with 160 MB > RAM and PATA hard drives with which I'm playing/experimenting. > I say hard drives, plural, because I have a few, each in an interchangeable > cartridge which can be swapped out at will. On one of the cartridges, I have > a 1.4 GB drive on which >I've installed FreeDOS 1.3. The others all have > larger drives and work fine so .. > So, here's the issue. If I try to boot from the hard drive, I get the > dreaded "read error while reading drive" message. Some might think the > install failed but if I boot to the Live CD and then tell it to boot to the > hard drive, it will boot at least options
The message is an indication that FreeDOS get an error reading some sector. So you should have less confidence in that disk... trying to rescue important files. ... It is delicate to know if you should try to fix it before getting the files. Anyway, it sure leads to use "chkdsk" to verify if there is errors... which would probably suggest itself to rerun with "chkdsk /f" where f stands for fix... if there is errors. But even if it is fixed... might be still problems with already installed files... Which could lead you to want to reinstall. If you do so... when formating the drive, you should choose to format the disk the slow full way... which I am unsure if the default install let you do so... I doubt it... you may need to start setup.bat with "setup adv" where adv=advance. And NOT "setup /adv" which I often wrongly try to do. In that mode, menus background are red... and the format option have the low and/or slow option... that would format all the sectors of the disk, marking the one that are wrong for not using them. I hope this help. _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
