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DOS启动盘 & LOGO技术（启动盘室） » Question about making an external hard drive into a DOS boot disk

Floor1　lqfles	Posted 2005-11-15 10:21
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Samsung external hard drive, the first partition is set as an active primary partition, and I copied the system files over. In the BIOS I set the first boot device to USB HDD, but it still won't boot. My motherboard is 845pE-V2 What should I do??? I'm so anxious I'm about to piss my pants!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Floor2　MYS	Posted 2005-11-15 10:55
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I've tried using KV2004's boot disk creation function to turn a USB flash drive into a boot disk (FREEDOS). Then I booted it in USB-ZIP mode. Later, under the DOS environment of WIN98, I used SYS C： to replace the system with MS-DOS. Not sure whether a hard drive can be done this way. Or maybe your boot disk creation method is wrong. You should use FORMAT /S or the SYS command to make a boot disk; you can't just directly copy the boot files.

Floor3　kevinhbwh	Posted 2005-11-16 22:34
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Of course your method won't work. You can't just simply copy the system files and call it done. You have to use format/s under DOS to make the boot disk, or sys works too.