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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

After changing my hard drive from DR-DOS system files to MS-DOS 7.10 
system files, and having the files in C: disappear, I looked at a few of 
the text files with linux (which does find them). One was okay but the 
others were okay partway through and then garbage.  I even had to type 
reset in linux after they messed up the screen.

We will experiment with formatting the C: partition with MS-DOS 7.10 and 
not letting DR-DOS near the computer and if that works, restore the 
missing files from another computer.  Neither DR-DOS nor FreeDOS seem to 
mix well with MS-DOS.   (On two Gateway computers a drive sysed first with 
another DOS and then with FreeDOS could not be read at all, and the emm386 
we have does not seem to work with loadlin).

Has anyone else had problems switching between OSes on hard disk?



On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, sindi keesan wrote:
 My partner wanted 
> to try 7.10 so he copied the system files to the DFI (which had DR-DOS on it 
> and I think was formatted with PQ-Magic) and discovered that, unlike when he 
> did this to his Win98 computer and everything worked eventually, C: after 
> rebooting with 7.10 on HD contained only command.com.
>
> So he put back DR-DOS and c: contains only command.com.  Attrib (from
> floppy disk since it was on C:) cannot find anything else.
>
> Linux finds all my files.  MS appears to have hidden them somehow.  fdisk 
> /mbr did not help.