• W98 DOS on a FAT32 partition - booting causes a reboot.

    From R.Wieser@21:1/5 to All on Fri Oct 5 17:22:54 2018
    Hello all,

    I just created a 5 GByte bootable FAT32 partition and formatted it using the
    /s option (to transfer the systemfiles to it). However, when I than restart there just is a delay of about 10 seconds, after which it reboots.

    The odd thing is that booting from a FAT16 thumbdrive and than accessing the above parition (the C: drive) works allright (already created a DOS folder
    and copied files into it)

    I've tried to google the problem, but nothing jumps out. Does anyone know whats going on here and how to fix it ?

    Regards,
    Rudy Wieser.
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  • From BugHunter@21:1/5 to R.Wieser on Fri Oct 5 19:11:55 2018
    R.Wieser <address@not.available> schreef op Vr 5 Okt 2018 om 17:22:
    Hello all,

    I just created a 5 GByte bootable FAT32 partition and formatted it using the /s option (to transfer the systemfiles to it). However, when I than restart there just is a delay of about 10 seconds, after which it reboots.

    The odd thing is that booting from a FAT16 thumbdrive and than accessing the above parition (the C: drive) works allright (already created a DOS folder and copied files into it)

    I've tried to google the problem, but nothing jumps out. Does anyone know whats going on here and how to fix it ?

    Regards,
    Rudy Wieser.


    Do you have an autoexec.bat ?

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  • From R.Wieser@21:1/5 to All on Fri Oct 5 18:58:48 2018
    However, when I than restart there just is a delay of about 10 seconds,
    after which it reboots.

    The problem was that repartitioning did not rewrite the MBR boot code - it
    was still the GRUB loader from the previous Linux OS on that disk.

    And ofcourse I only remembered "fdisk /mbr" *after* I killed the MBR
    (filling the sector with zeroes). Luckily I had not done much before
    testing if it would actually boot. :-)

    Regards,
    Rudy Wieser
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  • From Mynews@21:1/5 to All on Tue Oct 9 17:05:01 2018
    NTDETECT.COM

    ntdetect.com is a component of Microsoft
    Windows NT-based operating systems
    that operate on the x86 architecture.

    It is used during the Windows NT startup process,
    and is responsible for detecting basic hardware that will
    be required to start the operating system.


    "R.Wieser" wrote in message news:pp7vkf$8mg$1@gioia.aioe.org...

    Hello all,

    I just created a 5 GByte bootable FAT32 partition and formatted it using the
    /s option (to transfer the systemfiles to it). However, when I than restart there just is a delay of about 10 seconds, after which it reboots.

    +++++++++++++++++
    Make It A NT Partition
    Use A XP Boot.ini
    It supports Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition
    +++++++++++++++++

    The odd thing is that booting from a FAT16 thumbdrive and than accessing the above parition (the C: drive) works allright (already created a DOS folder
    and copied files into it)
    =====================
    odd thing is
    You Need It To Edit Windows NT-based operating systems

    The Make The XP Boot.ini
    To Look Like This

    +++++++++++++++++++++++
    [boot loader]
    timeout=15
    default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS
    [operating systems]
    multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition" /fastdetect
    ++++++++++++++++++++++++

    I've tried to google the problem, but nothing jumps out. Does anyone know whats going on here and how to fix it ?

    +++++++++++++++++++++++
    Bing For Microsoft Windows
    For More Info::::
    < https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/search/search?SearchTerm=boot+loader&IsSuggestedTerm=false&tab=&isFilterExpanded=false&CurrentScope.ForumName=windows&CurrentScope.Filter=&ContentTypeScope=#/windows/windows_xp-hardware/QnA,Discussion,Article/1

    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    Regards,
    Rudy Wieser.
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