Someone has sent me a cf card that has dos on it and it boots, it was probably user error though i wish i know what it was i did wrong. Thanks everyone for helping me learn how to access/use the computer. I'm able to put things on the cf card and run them, and i'm going to try writing to floppy...
i did just /fdisk mbr and just rebooted but it said it couldn't find the OS. this is me redoing the whole process. I will do it from the start again to see if thigns change
ok, i did /fdisk mbr and i did get a different result when formatting C. It did however give me an error message. Seems there's a "bad partition table"
It does let me open the text file (with type command). So the Drive exists, Files can be added/removed/opened. But for whatever reason it won't let me make it bootable, it feels like it's a user error but i do everything just the way it's intended. I don't even know what to do at this point.
I plan to go to a pc store later today to see if they have the cleaning materials (i only have like two of them). In the mean time i've been seeing if i can get dos applications running since i can boot ms dos from B drive and access the CF card. Still no luck booting but also no luck opening...
it (sometimes) works from B, but whether or not it works from time to time is unsure. It was one of the first thigns i tried and it didn't work, but now it is working, but it only works sometimes. That was probably a difficult to read sentence but it's at least sometimes able to boot from B...
aaand now it isn't. this is stupid. When i got the floppy disk it worked perfectly booting from the system. I tried to copy the files over to the hard disk and everything went well but it still gets stuck at Booting C: that's annoying but i figured that if i have a dos floppy i can just use the...
someone has mailed my a dos floppy and it boots the pc, later today i'm going to try copying the files over to the cf card, but i finally have dos on the computer