Toshiba not booting DOS and Windows, but Linux

Lloyd123 · 11-21-2008, 01:12 AM

Hi,
I have an old (10 years) Toshiba Satellite 490XCDT laptop with 94MB RAM, 4GB HDD, Pentium II Processor. I have installed Linux (Vector Linux) in it, and it worked. Later I tried to reinstall it with Windows NT 4.0. I was successfull in booting from a CD and creating the partitions (Including bootable primary partition). But when rebooting the system it is not able to boot from the hard disk, it shows some junk values in the screen, but not able to boot from the primary partition (C). But if I install Linux on it, it works fine!! I tried to install DOS 6.2 as well. But the same result, not booting. What could be the reason?

Thanks,
Lloyd

**TriggerFinger** · 11-21-2008, 09:18 AM

When installing DOS...did you format the drive FAT32?

11-21-2008, 01:12 AM	#1 (permalink)
Lloyd123 Registered User Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 1 OS: DOS	Toshiba not booting DOS and Windows, but Linux Hi, I have an old (10 years) Toshiba Satellite 490XCDT laptop with 94MB RAM, 4GB HDD, Pentium II Processor. I have installed Linux (Vector Linux) in it, and it worked. Later I tried to reinstall it with Windows NT 4.0. I was successfull in booting from a CD and creating the partitions (Including bootable primary partition). But when rebooting the system it is not able to boot from the hard disk, it shows some junk values in the screen, but not able to boot from the primary partition (C). But if I install Linux on it, it works fine!! I tried to install DOS 6.2 as well. But the same result, not booting. What could be the reason? Thanks, Lloyd

11-21-2008, 09:18 AM	#2 (permalink)
TriggerFinger Moderator Hardware Team Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: USA Posts: 11,791 OS: Vista SP1, XP SP3, PCLinuxOS2007	Re: Toshiba not booting DOS and Windows, but Linux When installing DOS...did you format the drive FAT32? __________________ DBAN - Memtest86+ - BartPE - Linux LiveCD - ImgBurn - HDD Diags - Disk Copy HOW TO BURN AN ISO FILE