external drive.
This is how I managed to transfer the FreeDOS files to an external
hard drive, and once I'd plugged it into the laptop, it worked just fine.
Hope this helps.
Let us know how you get on, or if you need any further information.
On Mon, 14 Oct 2024 at 10:59, G.W. Haywood via Fr
th the software recognizing the presence or
configuration of the hard drive. I think that's what is leading to the
"read error while reading drive" when trying to boot as well. I'm
willing to perform suggested experiments. Any help would be welcomed.
Thanks all.
-R
Good thought. I don't have much experience with FreeDOS yet so I don't
know what might issues here. I'll play with it a bit and report back.
Thanks for the idea.
-Rocky
On 10/7/2024 1:48 PM, Eric Auer via Freedos-user wrote:
Hi! Have you considered the thought that some of your
drivers, o
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 dr
Hello all,
New user to FreeDOS 1.3 here. I'm encouraged and still learning the ropes but
as an ages-ago DOS CLI user, it all seems very familiar. 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
