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Solve : MS DOS booted from Hard drive does not execute any .exe file even from outside? |
| Answer» <html><body><p>I am a 68-years old Neurosurgeon - a die-hard-fan-*censored*-avid-user(for over <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/three-708969" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about THREE">THREE</a> decades) of MS DOS 6.22 with QBasic1.0, Foxpro for DOS 2.5 <br/><br/>a and Wordstar 4.0 for all my work - taking at the end of every day a zipped back up of all transaction files of the day into a single 1.44 <br/><br/>MB FDD and back them upto my other PCs via FDD / USB Pen drive / Network etc., I use Windows only for surfing - telemedicine etc.,<br/><br/>Recently my 10 year old mobo started acting funny - weird messages about FDD, Keyboard not present etc., After sending the old mobo to <br/><br/>service, I shifted the MS DOS ec., Hard disk to another mobo - removing a pre-existing XP Hard disk leaving the old MS DOS as the only HDD.<br/><br/>MS DOS booted <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/fine-248571" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about FINE">FINE</a> from the old HDD and did all internal commands like dir, type, copy etc but hung up on all .exe files - sacndisk, <br/><br/>qbasic, fox, foxpro, ws etc.,<br/><br/>I then booted from a DOS Boot Floppy and now all .exe files worked fine, except the inevitable time-lag of the processor looking up <br/><br/>command.com in the slower FDD each time I gave a command fom the command line or via MS DOS Batch files.<br/><br/>I then used sys.com in the FDD to transfer the system to the C:\ drive. Now command.com in the FDD and the C:\ on the HDD had the same size <br/><br/>and date stamp. Yet when I rebooted fom the hard drive - cold and hot, the .exe files did not work and the system hung!<br/><br/>Can anybody help Plsss!<br/><br/>Googol Thanx in advance!!<br/><br/>Have you still got the MS-DOS floppies? Did you do SYS C: ? What does your CONFIG.SYS contain? what is contained in %comspec%?<br/><br/>see here<br/><br/><a href="http://2dos.homepage.dk/batutil/help/COMM_E.HTM">http://2dos.homepage.dk/batutil/help/COMM_E.HTM</a><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>__How much RAM does your HP PC have,where I understand you installed and are running the old MS-DOS HDD? <br/>__what is the CPU type?<br/>__Do you have any type of lock/restriction on the HDD, as some HP PC's have set in the BIOS?<br/>__To use old DOS programs &<a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/amp-363144" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about AMP">AMP</a>; files you <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/probably-1167177" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about PROBABLY">PROBABLY</a> need to manage upper memory like Salmon Trout hinted at, with smartdrv & <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/emm386" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about EMM386">EMM386</a> etc.</p></body></html> | |