" wrote:

I just put together a 686 to transfer dos files from an ailing 486's
hard drives. I was intending to use interlink or laplnk to do this.
For the secons computer I found an old 1 gig (approx) hard drive with
windows 95 on it. I reformated it from a dos 6.2 disk I had and
installed dos 6.2 on it. I then transfered the system from the floppy

Using sys c: you mean ?


to the hard drive. I got a "system transfered" message and assumed
that I now had a bootable hard drive. The problem is that it will not
boot from the hard drive. Command .com now shows to be in C:\ but I
can't seem to figure out what I did wrong. Does anyone have any ideas?
Thanks, Lenny Stein, Barlen Electronics.

You did it wrong.

You may even need to re-partition the disk, depending how it was originally set
up (requires active primary DOS partition). I think it's the master boot record
that'll be screwed up. You can avoid this by using DOS 5 IIRC but, once a HDD
gets it into its head from a newer MS OS that it's not a system disk you do have
to get back to basics to get it working otherwise.

Graham