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First post, by Bernkastel7734

Posted on 2022-09-11, 20:55

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Hello folks,
I have become a proud owner of IBM PC/XT with two FDDs. As I do not have a suitable MFM disk controller I'll use floppies. I have tested both FDDs and they both read floppies well. I have downloaded PC DOS img file from :
https://winworldpc.com/product/pc-dos/2x
I have copied PC-DOS disk 1 onto 360K floppy using 360K floppy drive and I'm getting ' non-system disk' error. What I'm doing wrong? Do that floppy need to be formatted in any special way?
Thanks for Your help.

Reply 1 of 4, by jakethompson1

Posted on 2022-09-11, 21:13

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I looks like PC-DOS 2.0 disk images are 180KB (single-sided disk). Perhaps try 3.3 to get it up and running then look into single side formatting later?

Reply 2 of 4, by Lylat1an

Posted on 2022-09-11, 21:14

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Copying the files won't work, it needs to be "imaged" to include the boot sector and hidden files.

I use WinImage for floppies.

Reply 3 of 4, by Horun

Posted on 2022-09-11, 21:29

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Yep needs to be imaged to the floppy, also pre DOS 3.3 needs IO.SYS written to the floppy first before Command.com and MSDOS.SYS plus the other files iirc.

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Reply 4 of 4, by Bernkastel7734

Posted on 2022-09-11, 21:42

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Lylat1an wrote on 2022-09-11, 21:14:

Copying the files won't work, it needs to be "imaged" to include the boot sector and hidden files.

I use WinImage for floppies.

Thanks a lot, it helped

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