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Subject: Re: Updating DOS on a harddisk
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Date: Thu, 3-Dec-87 08:44:59 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec  3 08:44:59 1987
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Summary: Good, but a coupla points

In article <2681@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>, mdf@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Mark D. Freeman) writes:
> When upgrading from DOS 2.X to 3.X you must do the following:
> 
> 1)	Backup (BACKUP.COM) the hard disk under 2.X

NO I don not recommend DOS backup to anyone!! Too flaky.
Try some other backup programs - FASTBACK (yeah I know, but I never had 
a problem with it, although I didn't do it on RLL drives) or some
such package.

> 2)	FDISK the hard disk under 2.X, releasing the DOS partition.
> 3)	Reboot under 3.X

Try to low level format with a better interleave, if you are gonna erase
everyuthing, why not try for better disk performance?
In this case, you don't have to fdisk ,remove old partition,fdisk,partition
format.

just low-level, fdisk, format.

> 4)	FDISK the hard disk under 3.X, assigning it all to a DOS
> 	partition.
> 5)	FORMAT the hard disk (/s) under 3.X
> 6)	RESTORE (/p) the hard disk from floppy under 3.X, answering NO
> 	to all questions it may ask
> 7)	DEL all DOS 2.X command files
> 8)	COPY the 3.X command files to the hard disk
> 

When re-fromat, put DOS in disk - format c:/S

if you are using a different backup package than DOS's, it'll probably
ask you when it runs up against programs of same name.  you oughta
be able to tell it to kee what is on the disk.


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