<CT> Re: No DOS directory on a computer
- From: "John" <spyder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <calmira_tips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 15:13:42 -0500
>One of the kids that I help take care off recently bought a computer from
>her school. It is a 486/25 and has Windows 3.1 and DOS 6.22 on it. The
>strange thing I think is that it doesn't have a directory for DOS. Would
>be safe for me to expand all the DOS files from DOS installation disks
>into a directory for her?
Um, chances are, the hard disk has the DOS system transfered to it via sys
c: from a DOS Boot disk. Rather than continue to patch DOS to the drive I
would just run your DOS install set and do a complete install. Then
reinstall windows to fix the problems her brother caused.
HTH,
John
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