First post, by nemail
Hi
I'm having a weird problem reinstalling my 486 desktop with Dos 6.22 (german).
DOS floppy boots, then it asks me to confirm that I want to format the disk and immediately after I do that, it says it encountered an error accessing the disk and exits to DOS prompt. It doesn't matter if i then first delete the partition or precreate one with fdisk. Sometimes even fdisk wont start with the error "error reading the disk".
The reason why I wanted to reinstall is that I wanted to see how Windows 95 would perform on that box (just out of being a little bored).
As it didn't perform too good, I decided to ditch everything and reinstall DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.1 again (thats where I'm stuck now).
The PC worked 100% without issues before, so I don't think that it is a hardware related problem.
I use a Samsung 40GB IDE disk in that PC as I wanted to save the original one from unnecessary wear. By the BIOS it is detected as ~2GB disk which is not a problem for me in a 486 Box. But I thought I'll mention that as that may also be cause for my current issue...? I didn't use a drive overlay software previously.
I already tried fdisk /mbr after DOS setup exited to DOS prompt but it seems that DOS 6.22 fdisk doesn't support "fdisk /mbr C:" and as it wouldn't let me change to C: (it says "invalid drive letter" although in fdisk, if it starts, C: is visible as partition "invalid") I'm not sure if it alters the MBR on C: or on A: or nowhere (no output after that command). I'm not even sure if floppies have an MBR (don't think so?)...
any suggestions anyone?
thanks!