First post, by mike_canada
..Thank god such forum exists...
Anyways,
So I bought myself a Dell Wyse V10L and I want to wipe out its hard drive and put DOS on it.
Today, I bought a new USB DVD-RW drive and I managed to boot into DOS on the Wyse from my boot CD. Nice news is Drive A is recognized (as virtual floppy on the CD), but sad news is, the rest of the CD can't be access because I couldn't find a good driver to put in config.sys. I tried duse and others but no luck. The DVD-RW drive is an ASUS which was manufactured a few months ago.
So I thought, meh, I got 1.4MB to play with for the moment.
The boot image I am using is Win98 DOS version for the best hard drive support. The drive in my wyse I think is a special flash drive. It's capacity is only 128 MB, and I can use the bios to setup the hard drive in any mode I want (can set PIO/DMA modes and addressing: CHS, LBA, etc).
Now here's where trouble kicks in...
I can execute the FDISK program, but as soon as it tries to show the information for the drive, it locks up forever.
All I see is "Current Active partition: 1" and the cursor blinks after "1" and that's it.
So what do I do?
Should I literally downgrade my MS-DOS version in hopes FDISK will work?
Should I get a utility that's better than FDISK?
How do I fix this?
I mean I want to wipe out the flash drive and put an MS-DOS partition on it and then after boot from that drive.