First post, by mike_canada
maybe it's just FDISK, but I'm having one heck of a time trying to boot from the local hard drive after an OS transfer.
Let me explain.
I have a CD which represents a bootable MS-DOS 6.22 hard drive.
I then run FDISK and change drive letters to D to access the hard drive, and I create a partition to use maximum space. I reboot the computer then I format drive D as a system disk with this command:
format d:/s
then I copy all the contents from the CD to the hard drive being careful not to overwrite existing files.
I then reboot the computer and remove the CD. and then it asks me to insert the system disk (at the bios level). So I do it, and maybe the MBR is damaged, so I try:
fdisk /mbr
and I get this error:
Error reading fixed disk. The master boot code has NOT been updated.
I also tried in fdisk to set the active partition to be on my hard drive and it gives me this error:
Current fixed disk drive: 2
Only partitions on Drive 1 can be made active.
yet my drive 1 is the image on the bootable CD and drive 2 is the actual writable hard drive.
What could I be doing wrong?