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miff@apanix.apana.org.au writes:

>woody@portal.apana.org.au (Terry Wood) writes:

>>Hello there...

>>Now I rebooted the system, and all i get after it shows the system config is:

>>128 KB CACHE MEMORY
>>Missing operating system_

>The BIOS disk geometry doesn't match the geometry in the MBR and elsewhere
>on the disk.

>>and thats it... I can load Dos from my 6.22 dos disks and then issue C:
>>and the HD is all there perfect... fdisk reports the hd as the Active 
>>partition, and i even did a fdisk /mbr and that achieved nothing.

>Oops.  Now things are really confused.  Last I knew, only the DOS 5
>fdisk supported /mbr properly; which did you use?

>>I then reinstalled Dos 6.22 over the dos on the hd (which come from the same
>>set of disks aswell)..  Nope, nothing... So then i made sure and copied the
>>command.com, io.sys and msdos.sys (whatever anyway) aswell as the dos dir 
>>into another dir, and did a COMPLETE dos re-install...

>>Nothing... Im still looking at the dos box with a Missing operating 
>>system... I would like to fix this as i HATE reinstalling MS products 
>>again, and ill be forced to sit down and set it up from my sister winging 
>>about it every time i see here...

>Understandable.  A few things you can try : fire up something like
>pfdisk, or (possibly) an old nortons DI, and see if it agrees
>with the BIOS geometry.

>Failing that, back everything up to another disk or tape, and reformat.

Last time this happened to me reformating did'nt work either:-(
I had to re-partition as well!  ie use fdisk to delete the 
partition and recreate it.  There must be an easier fix though.  
I can't remember if I checked that the partition was marked active
using fdisk though.  Try that.

dave