formated hard drives

i have two hard drives that have been formated completely. they are blank
i have another computer that i can use but am not aloud to open and connect to the inside wireing other wise i would just copy c: to one of the other hard drives i have.
i would like to know how to copy dos to the other hard drive.
i have tryed making a systems disk but the computer will not take it it says "boot disk failure instert systems disk and hit return"
i have tryed to make differnt types of systems disks and tryed them on both mother boards that i have and they both says the same thing.
i have to use 3.5 1.44 mb disks because i dont have a cd burner



after i have dos on one of the hard drives i want to start copying the hard drive from the one working computer to the blank one.

any help or ideas would be great
thx

Seems to me that since your not even allowed to open the computer then you should'nt be tinkering around with the hard drives, or trying to copy anything.

the computer that i can use is my moms computer and she thinks that if i open it some thing will go wrong with it and she wont be able to use it.
i've tryed telling her that nothing will happen but she wont let me.
if i could i'd take her hard drive out and put it in this other computer that i'm working on it has more mem the mother board she's useing now is an NT station one

What do you want to do? make an exact copy of your mom's box?
get Norton Ghost, this prog allows you to make exact clones of a box.
http://www.symantec.com/techsupp/gho..._tutorial.html
You can use USB, TCP or Parallel to connect, you probably have one of these on both boxes.

You can get images for bootdisks at www.bootdisk.com

this is gonna sound kinda dumb and obvious but when you try booting with the system disc did you go into BIOS and make sure that it was set to boot from floppy? I built the system i am using now and out of the box it was set to boot from hdd only. I had to go into BIOS and tell it to chech floppy first. Just my $.02

If you are wanting to just copy the hard drives then I'd suggest what victorkaum said. Use Norton Ghost, or theres another program call drive image which you can get at www.powerquest.com/driveimage

i'm just trying to get an os on this other computer so i can use it
i did tell the bios to read floppy but for some reason it cant find the floppy
i took the battery out of it and then put it back in and now it cant read the floppy drive
what am i doing wrong?
i've tryed changing just about every bios setting and it still wont read drive a:\

You might want to try restoring defaults in your bios.

when you say that it won't read the a: drive do you mean that the bios will not recognize it or do you mean that if you put a floppy in there that it will not read it.

From what I understand is you have her computer that you want to copy the OS from, and you have a computer that you are working on which you want to copy her OS to.

If thats right then what you should do is find, or borrow a Windows full install disk, or the OS of your choice and install it onto your harddrive from your computer.

It might work if you copied her OS to your computer but there might be problems since her OS already has all of the motherboard drivers, and other device drivers on it.

Since you have removed the battery, it will be necessary to go in to
the BIOS setup and tell it what size floppy you have, and to set the boot
order to boot from the floppy first. Some newer motherboards will automatically
detect hardware, but you can't always count on it.

If you still can't boot from the floppy disk after setting the BIOS, consider the
possibility that you have a bad floppy disk. Try several disks before giving up.
You may have a bad floppy drive. Floppy drives are notoriously unreliable.

You could have a disk made on one computer that can't be read by another
because of wear on one or the other.

If your cdrom drive is bootable, get a bootable cd, and that will solve your
problem.
:cool:

wait a miniute. One thing here. Thats illegal if you are trying to do that with a microsoft product. You are trying to copy windows from on hdd to another for use in a difrent system. that is against the end user liscense agreement.

lol zombiemann.

Just use the CD and install it fresh. That way your not copying it. It be just like you bought it. lol

to bad we dont have the cd. i had though of that and asked my sister to burn me windows but i havent talked to her since then.
i tryed the bios stuff i was getting floppy disk(s) fail (40) all the time i had two differnt drives and two differnt mother boards and was having basicly the same problem on both.
i think i figured out what might have been the problem my big foot hard drive had had a virus and thats way i formated it but maybe the virus survied or i have this video card a "sis 6326 agp sis'98 pkd0227 0005af" with a "v2.25" little removeable chip thingy on it and i thought that maybe some how it stored the virus becuse i got the old 486 mother board to read this dos 6.22 disk that i had downloaded and it was working so i put all the best pci cards i had in that computer and my big foot hard drive and booted back up and the damn thing froze while updating the ESCD i removed the hard drive and rebooted still same problem i tryed again and this time it wouldnt get past looking for my hard drive and it would freeze so that mother board is shot and the other one isnt working either so i went to good will and bought some used mother boards a good pent mmx 200 and an old pent 100 both where tested at the store and they worked i took the old mother board and put the video card and hard drive in and started having the same problems.
i put all my other stuff on the other mother board and its working fine i got dos 6.22 in there now but i would really like to use my big foot but i dont want any more problems.
any sugestions?
any one want to buy three slitely messed up mother boards?!?
p.s. how do i change my user name from oso_1_ to something else? do i have to get a new account?

i've changed my name
haveing fun exploring dos 6.22

Part of your problems could be the agp card. That SiS card is just no good quality, also you need to be sure that you use the right standard, 1.0 or 2.0, AGPx1 and x2 are 1.0, AGPx4 is 2.0
By forcing wrong standard (eg wrong voltage agp cards) into older motherboards you can easily damage the board (and vga card).

next: Quantum bigfoots, well I have experienced that sometimes the Quantum Bigfoot labels are wrong. For instance the label reads 2.1GB, x heads, x sectors, but in fact it's a 2.5GB disk with other specs (or vice versa). You have two labels one on top of the disk, that has the power requirements, master slave options, us patents and configs for all available bigfoots (1.2GB, 2.1GB, 1.7GB, 2.5GB). At the back you have a second label stating the number if your drive. It's like "2550AT P/N xxxxxxx rev 03-C"
This makes every computer enthousiast think that you have a 2.5 GB disk in your hands, well mostly it is but sometimes it's a 2.1GB. I have encountered many of those disks. So there was probably some nasty reseller.

Quote:

---

By forcing wrong standard (eg wrong voltage agp cards) into older motherboards you can easily damage the board (and vga card).

---

your probley right about that. that would make sense but i'm still not sure i want to try the card in my new mother board i have how ever hooked up the big foot and it is working fine for now.

but... i was having problems with the card on the mother board it came from and newer mother boards that i had. why would that be?

also we are talking about this in one of my other threads "virus survie a format"

Quote:

---

but... i was having problems with the card on the mother board it came from and newer mother boards that i had. why would that be?

---

Intel changed their policy with their newer chips and introduced the 1.5v as the standard for agp however older cards (e.g. 2xAGP) runs on 3.3v (mobo's with VIA 693 or Intel BX support these). Sticking such a card into your 1.5v agp slot will damage mobo and card. It will burn down your fresh mobo!

Quote:

---

The 845 or the newer chipset based motherboards will not support AGP 2x VGA card anymore. Furthermore, VIA's KT400 and SiS's 746 have also given up AGP 2x/4x compatible design which wil definitely cause some trouble.

---

source: http://www.msi.com.tw/html/e_service...tect/page1.htm

Therefor first check the voltages your agp slot works on, it's either 3.3v or 1.5v. If you don't have the manual, you can search the net for the manual, or check your chipset number and search the net for your chipset specifications (this will tell you the voltage).
Check your agp card voltage. If it's ok plug in, otherwise don't ;)

if you want to know more about the agp standards:
http://www.hardtecs4u.com/reviews/2001/agp4x_update_e/

the agp card has a removable chip on it that has a sticker with "V2.25" on it do you think thats the volts? or some thing else? can i up grade the card?

Quote:

---

Originally posted here by ZeTtA bYtE
the agp card has a removable chip on it that has a sticker with "V2.25" on it do you think thats the volts? or some thing else? can i up grade the card?

---

That's probably a version number and NOT the voltage. AGP cards normaly are 1.5V or 3.3V.
Upgrade the card? bwah perhaps you can add some memory chips but that's not worth their price.

btw, you know what a chipset is? It's on your motherboard. When I said check the chipset number, I mean check it and google for it. For instance it could have been an Intel 850, or a Intel 440BX or a SIS645, ... search their sites for the specifications.

Look at your graphic card, search for the model number and google that number this will probably turn up the specs for the agp card.

Compare those results and there you are.

(pfff... I see why you got banned)