frustrating installation problem

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From: nicholas archibald
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 1994 00:51

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I have  a 40Meg MFM hard drive which I am using with IDE floppies.
The guy at the computer store who installed the drive told me, that
because the two different control boards conflicted ,that he had to run 
some weird software on the drive to get it compatible. Anyway, what I ended
up with is a hard drive with the DOS 6.20 CONFIG.SYS  and  AUTOEXEC.BAT
files on it. I have a previous version of DOS that I wish to install,
but it is incompatible with these files. 
The question is, what is the best thing to do. Should I just rename the
DOS 6.20 files, and load in the DOS 5.0 files. I dont know what I am
doing and am worried I will screw the whole thing up.

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