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Not a bootable disk error (Users)

posted by Columbo, 30.05.2020, 21:06

I have a drive formatted FAT32 and I wanted to install MS-DOS 6.22 on it. I have some old floppies from a number of years ago but when I try to install MS-DOS from the floppies I get a "This is not a bootable disk" error. I figured that maybe it was because they were old floppy disks and was not readable so I downloaded a copy of MS-DOS 6.22 from an abandonware site, decompressed the img files onto 3 disks and tried to install from them but got the same error. Can anyone suggest why I am getting this error? I would assume that the first floppy disk img file would be bootable.

Thanks

Complete thread:

• Not a bootable disk error - Columbo, 30.05.2020, 21:06
  • Not a bootable disk error - ecm, 30.05.2020, 21:49
    • Not a bootable disk error - glennmcc, 31.05.2020, 04:26
      • Not a bootable disk error - DosWorld, 31.05.2020, 15:27