I've been wrestling with getting a microdrive to boot now for hours.... 😵
And finally gave up the idea of just copying a full install from another hdd to the preformatted microdrive... sigh... whatever I did I could NOT for the life of me get the drive to actually boot off the copied install.
(files reads fine, blah blah etc, but it just hung after post was finished)
Now then, bitterly disappointed, I figured the only way from here would be old school full install, and I THOUGHT I had been smart and had 'backed up'(?) DOS floppies to a diff computer, and then just copy that back onto some empty floppies if I ever(like now, apparantly) needed to install them again.
But the setup disk will just not BOOT. I then manually run setup.exe, and it tells me too reboot... <facepalm>
So there's obviously a trick I'm overlooking when either creating those backups (just a plain copy of all files in 3 folders, incl hidden ones!, on winXP) or when making the 'new' copies.
Final soloution, I had to go and DIG up the original DOS floppies...ack
Now finally they boot, and (expecting yet another failure) the microdrive actually boots as well after install !!!
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Any comments on making this easier, or where I went wrong, would be apprectiated.
- Is there a special way to archive those DOS floppies ?
(I mean, they had all the necessary files, autoexec etc, but no booting for me)
I DID test with a regular (non-micro)hdd earlier, just copied the whole DOS install from a working one, then back onto the target hdd, and it boots NO PROBLEM!
Why the difference - is beyond me atm (to tired to google a single page more, blargh 😜 )
PS:
I noticed the sys c: command beeing mentioned ion above postes, one doing it pre-copy.
BUT... I did NOT do that with the (in-)direct copy of full install from 1 hdd to the 2nd(both full size 3,5''), and it still worked/booted, so.... (?)
😕
Is that really needed in such cases?
PPS:
regarding the non-booting archived floppies:
aah, maybe I have to turn ON the S attribute(with attrib +S) on the existing system files ? They
(Unless I do the "sys a:" on a suitable PC first)