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Date:      Mon, 10 Feb 1997 10:13:06 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Sebastian Zinkiewicz <zink@ionsys.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How to get DOS back ?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.970210101229.195I-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <32FE71EB.441E@ionsys.com>

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On Sun, 9 Feb 1997, Sebastian Zinkiewicz wrote:

> Situation:
> I was installing FreeBSD 2.1.6
> I had a power failure. . . 
> Since than I have decided to install FreeBSD on another hard drive.
> 
> Question:
> I want to format my crashed drive back for a DOS.
> When I boot from DOS Bootable diskette I get the message:
> "Memory Allocation Error
> Cannot load command, System halted"

Looks like your boot floppy is busted.

> My another drive works perfectly on that machine (win95 and NT) so
> definetely it is not a hardware problem, just the DISK...
> I cannot get even to fdisk utility...

If you can boot win95, then you have fdisk & format available.  Just drop
to a DOS prompt and fire away.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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