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DOS疑难解答 & 问题讨论（解答室） » Final questions about installing DOS 7.10!

Floor1　zhuhou18	Posted 2003-12-13 00:00
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My system is XP. I read through the posts for quite a while and still didn’t understand how I should do it. Right now I just want to know two things: 1 If I install DOS, does that mean my partition can’t be NTFS and must be converted to FAT? 2 For the CD edition of DOS 7.10, can that ISO file be installed under XP using a virtual CD-ROM drive? Hope an expert can advise me!

Floor2　CoolIORI	Posted 2003-12-20 00:00
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Yeah. Nobody has explained clearly how to boot it.

Floor3　zhuhou18	Posted 2003-12-20 00:00
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Even though nobody answered me, I still want to ask again: my system has only one XP installation, and drive C is in NTFS format, so I can't install DOS, but my other partitions are in FAT32 format. Can I install DOS on one of the other partitions?

Floor4　hunome	Posted 2003-12-20 00:00
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No. Drive C must be fat or fat32. For ISO format, please burn it to a disc and boot from the CD to install.

Floor5　zhuhou18	Posted 2003-12-21 00:00
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Many thanks to hunome for the answer! Looks like there's no way for me then. I'm too much of a newbie to dare convert C to FAT32, so I'll just wait until I reinstall the system in the future!

Floor7　GWM	Posted 2003-12-25 00:00
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When installing MS-DOS 7.10, the system prompts: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- MS-DOS 7.10 SETUP ================= Setup Will now check the partitions on your hard drives. If you want to skip this process, specify the switch /H for SETUP. Note: Please ensure that there is no error on your hard drives. You can verify this by running SCANDISK or similar first. MS-DOS 7.10 Setup is now checking partitions on your hard drives... Warning: Coprocessor not present and DPMI setup failed! If application attempts floating operations system may hang! (E) Cannot read sector 0 of fixed disk 2 -- Invnlid function or parameter (E) Cannot access fixed disk 2 -- Invnlid function or parameter (W) Drive letter assignments may be incorrect ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Why is this? Also, the hard disk was reformatted with DOS-6.22 FORMAT, and no system is installed.

Floor8　Wengier	Posted 2003-12-28 00:00
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Hadn't this problem already been solved long ago?