Since my new computer is able to boot directly from a USB flash drive, I
decided to make DOS boot version with CT DOS
on it. That way I could have the rock solid performance of CT DOS as
well as the flawless CW, and not have to worry about
conflicts in the windows machine.
When I finished building the flash drive, the system would not boot to
windows and gave the dreaded message "missing operating
system". My new computer was destroyed ! Apparently the culprit was the
DOS fdisk command, which not only wrote
the partition on the flash drive but also wrote it to the hard drive as
well. When I tried to repair the hard drive with the
windows cd utilities, it said that the drive had a FAT16 partition. I
had to completely re-install windows. What a PITA, I still
don't know how much I lost. I know a lot of my contest logs are gone.
So, if you are going to make one of these, I would recommend disabling
or removing the drive just to be safe.
On the good side the flash drive works fine.
Henry, K4HAL
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