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First post, by GabrielKnight123

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I have been reinstalling Dos over and over trying to get a boot manager working and I asked before about putting a HDD with Dos into another PC and the answer was swapping the HDD would work but what about if I install Dos then plug the HDD into my main i7 PC and copy everything like C:\Dos and all hidden files autoexec.bat + config.sys etc to a CD would I be able to then copy from the CD to a reformatted HDD to get Dos back? This would save me so much time but does Dos change anything at a hard drive level at all?

Reply 1 of 6, by Jo22

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As far as I understand you posting, yes, that works. However, you would have to copy the system files using SYS (SYS C:).
This should work if the new HDD was partitioned with FDISK first and then formatted with the /B parameter (reserves spare space for boot sector and MSDOS.SYS/IO.SYS).
If it was formated with the /S parameter, the system files and the boot sector should be there already.

If you like to install MS-DOS 6.22 off a CD-ROM, you could also look out for an old DOS 6.22 CD-ROM.
Be it physical or.. Anyway, make sure you've got a DOS 6.22 license (COA ceritificate). 😉

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Reply 5 of 6, by Jo22

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I'd use an USB pen drive or SD/MMC/CF card+card reader. On both types DOS can be installed on (bootable, even).

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Reply 6 of 6, by chinny22

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GabrielKnight123 wrote:

Thanks jo22 yes I bought my original Dos 6.21 disks of ebay that were sealed with COA but if I dont use SYS C: or format /B and just copy everything over will that work?

To use your wording this is the only part of dos that does "Dos change anything at a hard drive level"
so you will still need to run the command,