Can't Start Win95 in MS-DOS mode
Chris Lecky
Highlight the file and hit alt-enter and click on the
Program tab Make sure that command line=c:\windows\command.com
make sure that this file is identical to one in your root drive
Quentin Schiltz wrote:
> We have a computer where I am work that was a Zenix server (IBM Model
> 9595OMF 486-50mhz MicroChannel w/ SCSI hard drive) that we decided to
> convert to a Windows 95 machine, to replace a computer that recently "bit
> the dust".
> We had saved the DOS 6 installation diskettes and Windows 95 upgrade
> diskettes that we had purchased for the other computer that went down, so
> decided to install the Operating System on the IBM 9595.
> First, we used Fdisk and removed the non-dos (Zenix) partition that was on
> the hard drive. Then we created a Primary DOS partition and formatted it,
> using the DOS 6 Fdisk.exe and format.com commands.
> After that we installed the Windows 95 Operating System from the diskettes.
> After the installation, we created a folder called "OldDOS" and moved all
> the (DOS 6) files into this folder, deleting the DOS folder. The Windows 95
> "DOS 7" files remained in the Windows 95 Subdirectory named "Command".
> Everything seems to be working just fine with the system with the exception
> that if we select "Restart Computer in MS-DOS Mode" from the Shutdown menu,
> it starts to reboot, then hangs with a blank screen. We can access the DOS
> prompt from within Windows 95, but can't seem to be able to restart the
> computer in that mode.
> We've tried making changes in the autoexec.bat and config.sys files, but to
> no avail. Can anyone tell me what is missing, or what we need to change in
> order to be able to restart in MS-DOS mode?
> Thanks in advance for your help!
>
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Quentin Schiltz
RACER
1. Click Start-Shutdown and select "Restart the Computer". When the message
"Starting Windows 95" appears hit the F8 key. A boot menu should appear,
select "Command Prompt Only". That should boot you from the HDU to a C:\
prompt. At the C:\ prompt type "ver" and hit <enter>. It should return
"Windows 95". If it returns "MS-DOS 6.xx" then you need to run sys.com.
2. If the system won't boot to C:\ then get out your Win95 Startup floppy
and boot to that. If you don't have a Startup Disk you can make one
(Control Panel-Add/Remove Software-Startup Disk). This will boot to the A:\
prompt. The file sys.com is on there so you can reload the boot files on
the HDU if you need to. (The Win95 Startup Disk utility kind of sucks,
since there's no CD-ROM or extended memory support.)
3. Win95 supposedly does not need autoexec.bat or config.sys to run. Try
disabling those two files by changing their extensions to .old. Reboot to
Windows, then try to select MS-DOS mode from the Shutdown menu. If that
hangs, then look in the root directory for autoexec.dos and config.dos, and
check them out for anything untoward. You might try disabling them too.
I hope this helps.
RACER
Quentin Schiltz <qsch...@nishnay.net> wrote in article
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Bill Schilz
Quentin,
I checked my configuration and found my Command.com file in my
C:\ (root) directory and in My C:\Windows subdirectory. It wasn't contained
in my C:\Windows\Command subdirectory. See if it makes a difference having
them in these locations.
P.S. I almost freaked when I saw your last name!
