Well, for some strange reason, my school had and was throwing out a bunch of Model M's and an unopened copy of DOS 5.0 so I became the new owner of each. I then went to my friends house, found a vintage computer with a Pentium MMX in it, and tried to install DOS. Got a strange error when trying to install, said something about the directory and possibly having files of the same name, whatever. So I went into fdisk, deleted all partitions, and tried to create a primary dos partition. Well, for some strange reason, after I press create primary dos partition, the computer sits there, keyboard unresponsive, saying Current fixed disk drive: 1 (blank blue space) Press Esc to return to FDISK Options_ but it wont let me do anything. I tried to run the installation again, said I needed to format, it hung at 0%, went into A:> and tried to format c: that way, it said something about trying to recover allocation... and kept counting. Anywho, I have no idea how to get this thing running, and I would love to play around with a computer before my time. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.
EDIT: Just did A>format c: again and this time I let it try to recover a bit more and got to 1 percent format lol. From my research it's bad sectors, but my USB floppy drive wont be coming in for another few days, and even then, I don't have any floppy's lying around :/
EDIT: Just did A>format c: again and this time I let it try to recover a bit more and got to 1 percent format lol. From my research it's bad sectors, but my USB floppy drive wont be coming in for another few days, and even then, I don't have any floppy's lying around :/
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