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Reply 20 of 22, by Disruptor

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Are there more partitions on that disk?
Does that disk have an ACTIVE partition? (You can verify and change that in fdisk)

Reply 21 of 22, by weedeewee

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MustiFB82 wrote on 2025-11-18, 09:58:

Try this.

boot from floppy & remove all partitions.
Reboot
boot from floppy, & create your primary partition
Reboot
boot from floppy & format your primary partition using format C: /S
Reboot
Does it boot from hdd ?

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Reply 22 of 22, by MustiFB82

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weedeewee wrote on 2025-11-18, 17:03:
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MustiFB82 wrote on 2025-11-18, 09:58:

Try this.

boot from floppy & remove all partitions.
Reboot
boot from floppy, & create your primary partition
Reboot
boot from floppy & format your primary partition using format C: /S
Reboot
Does it boot from hdd ?

I did all of them above..

I formatted HDD first at 6Gb then re-formatted it at 2 Gb then I reformatted,deleted all partitions and reduced it to 1GB(1027 MB).

I tried "format C: /S" again and again. Last time my DOS 6.22 installed without any problem after I changed 2nd disc. Three of them are working and one bootdisc,all from "https://winworldpc.com/home". I will try to install Win95 OR2.5 tomorrow to 5 GB part but I have doubt if HDD can work both at FAT16 and FAT32 type.

I will inform you tomorrow. I hope during Windows 95 installation I will not have problem with recognition of CD ROM drive despite it is showed at BIOS and starting process.