win 3.1 only boots with disk

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Gizmo476

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A drive with win 3.1 and dos 6.2 was copied and in return of original harddrive the computer does not boot without boot disk support. Once to a c: cd windows c:/windows win enter I get to windows. what preventing boot up with out disk. Non system disk error is presnted without disk.
 
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Problem solved I had already done everything above. I needed to to change the attribute to the command.com file by typing at
"c:\ attrib command.com -a -s -h -r"
And then run SYS C: . Thanks for all the help everything is back up and running now!
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Boot up from the A: drive as normal then instead of starting Windows type 'SYS c:' and return.
Reboot without the disk and see if it works.
If not Boot up off the disk again and run 'Fdisk'
I can't remember the order of the menu off the top of my head but there will be a option to set a partition active. Select that option and reboot to test.
 
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Gizmo476

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Problem solved I had already done everything above. I needed to to change the attribute to the command.com file by typing at
"c:\ attrib command.com -a -s -h -r"
And then run SYS C: . Thanks for all the help everything is back up and running now!
 
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