Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!burl!codas!mtune!whuts!dab From: dab@whuts.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Updating DOS on a harddisk Message-ID: <3373@whuts.UUCP> Date: Thu, 3-Dec-87 08:44:59 EST Article-I.D.: whuts.3373 Posted: Thu Dec 3 08:44:59 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 6-Dec-87 21:30:51 EST References: <3418@ece-csc.UUCP> <63200007@convex> <2681@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 41 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. -- Cogito Ergo Zoom Chaste makes waste "Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing" (G. Steinem) Dave B. (no relation to Adam West) {ihnp4,allegra,ulysses}!whuts!dab