IBM Dos 4.00

From: ajp166 <ajp166_at_bellatlantic.net>
Date: Thu Aug 30 19:53:51 2001

I dont know that it's such a big deal. 4.0 was oddball but any old copy
of 5.0 (more stable as well) would easily fdisk it and format the disk.

The real problem is that apparently the disk MBR is weird and
a more aggressive tool like FIPS is needed.

Allison

Subject: Re: IBM Dos 4.00


>> > > FDISK v4 for PS/1 ( Beth Dorman )
>> > My guess is that any FDISK on any DOS ( v3 or higher )
>> > will do for this. My current Windows computer has fdisk,
>> > for example. Many, many others on the list know more,
>> > but I think you can Format ( with 'Copy System Files' ) a
>> > floppy, and put fdisk on it with a New computer and be OK.
>On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Don Maslin wrote:
>> Unless it can be handled by SETVER, he will get an error
>> message "Incorrect DOS".
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