First post, by mike_canada
I'm trying to make myself a ramdrive again using XMSDSK for my bootable hard drive image CD.
I redone this CD several times.
First it was DOS 6.22 . The XMSDSK utility works wonderful in that, but trying to transfer the MBR over to the real hard drive so I can get it to boot (with DOS6.22) was a no-go sadly.
After reading documents on disk, I could use /CMBR flag if I had Dos 7+ installed to refresh the harddrive MBR.
So I redid my CD so that windows 98 DOS mode was the primary system. Tried running XMSDSK in that, no luck. I then redid my CD so that windows 95 OSR2 DOS mode was the primary system. Still same issue with XMSDSK in those systems.
The issue is that despite me being informed that XMSDSK is installed on the drive, the system locks up and I have to reboot, but this does not happen in DOS 6.22
Is there something I can do to XMSDSK to make it work in Dos 7?
I have not changed my config.sys or autoexec.bat files during all the tests.
If not, then is there something better than XMSDSK that can give me a big ramdrive (ideally 32-64MB)? My system has 256MB ram installed.