I appreciate the suggestion and I made the attempt but chkdsk c: /f
found no errors and no effect on the behavior. It continues not to be
able to boot directly to the hard drive but will if booted to the Live
CD and boot from the hard drive is selected.
Respectfully, I don't think the hard drive is the problem. I think
there's some BIOS timing issue that's supposed to protect from boot
sector infiltration of virus or malware. On other drives in cartridges
when swapped in, the BIOS sometimes warns that a restore or rescue image
was not found (or some such message) and booting happens normally. This
system is long gone and hasn't been a problem in just as long. This
warning does not appear with this drive and boot image, I'm not sure why
but I don't think this is the problem. However, it may be a symptom of
where the problem lies. I don't know enough, though, to say it's
related other than it's never been a problem.
What's going on here, I don't know but there's some interaction that the
CD allows bypassing.
-Rocky
On 10/5/2024 12:56 AM, Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user wrote:
Probably better to run from the Live CD and issue "chkdsk C: /f".
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