I have a boot disk I've made to play a DOS-based game and when I boot from the disk it won't recongize my hard drive when I type "C:" at the prompt.
Are there lines I need to change in the command.com and/or the autoexec.bat files to make it work?
2006-10-16 10:26:42 · 3 answers · asked by The_Chocolate_Moose 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
I have windows xp installed. That's not the problem. I'm trying to run a game in a bare-bones dos environment because it won't seem to run in windows.
2006-10-16 10:32:53 · update #1
Your Windows XP partion on the Hard drive is most likely NTFS. the Dos disk will not read NTFS. Dos uses FAT for it's file system NTFS and FAT are not compatible. What you need to do is download DosBox and run that in your windows XP system. It simulates a clean dos enviorment.
2006-10-16 10:45:29 · answer #1 · answered by gearnofear 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's also possible that you've been assigned a new drive letter to take the place of C when you boot this way. Try different drive letters and see if one of those is actually your hard drive. I know when you boot up from a windows startup disk, the C drive is usually called the D drive until normal operation continues. good luck :-)
2006-10-17 12:39:02 · answer #2 · answered by Army Of Machines (Wi-Semper-Fi)! 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your boot disk that you made won't read your hard drive. In fact as far as it's concerned, the A drive is the only thing that exists. If you boot from the installation CD, you will be able to read your hard drive that way, though I can't guarentee you'll be able to play your DOS game strictly through these means.
2006-10-16 22:41:56 · answer #3 · answered by Ronin 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋