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Be patient with me I have to sort through everything
that you have said I beleive the Leg 12Cd is an SX50 but that is of no importance now I am assuming the 66MHZ unit is ok just the Leg12 CD The format number for generic is usually just the word generic What is the number on the master CD 17xxxx Are you able to boot with just the restore disk no CD and get a CD driver recognition The correct floppy for the 12CD is 142332 Elector has it on his site Assuming the CDROM has not been changed You arer talking Windows 311 master CD If so you can also do a manual install off of Master Cd After the above info is replied to "SV" wrote in message ... I have a pair of 486 DX units that I'm trying to get in the hands of someone who can use them. One is a 66MHz machine (model BL 202?) that has all the restore software w/ it. The second is a Legend 12CD 50 MHz machine. Since they are so close in speed, I wondered if I could restore the DX2-50 w/ the software from the DX2-66. First I tried the format number from the 66 MHZ machine - restored fine, but there is a config.sys error and no CD drivers load. I went to the PriorityOne site, entered the serial number and, lo and behold, there's a format number listed on the materials list. I reformatted and tried again using that format # (555529) - I got a message saying that format number wasn't found, so I used a generic one. Same error message in config.sys and no CD drivers loaded. Does this mean that the CD likely doesn't contain the info for me to restore the 50 MHZ machine? Or am I doing something wrong? Thanks in advance for any help. JEFF |
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486 restore - format number not found
I have a pair of 486 DX units that I'm trying to get in the hands of someone
who can use them. One is a 66MHz machine (model BL 202?) that has all the restore software w/ it. The second is a Legend 12CD 50 MHz machine. Since they are so close in speed, I wondered if I could restore the DX2-50 w/ the software from the DX2-66. First I tried the format number from the 66 MHZ machine - restored fine, but there is a config.sys error and no CD drivers load. I went to the PriorityOne site, entered the serial number and, lo and behold, there's a format number listed on the materials list. I reformatted and tried again using that format # (555529) - I got a message saying that format number wasn't found, so I used a generic one. Same error message in config.sys and no CD drivers loaded. Does this mean that the CD likely doesn't contain the info for me to restore the 50 MHZ machine? Or am I doing something wrong? Thanks in advance for any help. JEFF |
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"metronid" wrote...
I beleive the Leg 12Cd is an SX50 but that is of no importance now Both of the screens that show CPU info list it as a DX2 I am assuming the 66MHZ unit is ok just the Leg12 CD Correct - the 50 MHz machine is the one in question The format number for generic is usually just the word generic After I got the message about my format number not being found, I was asked if I wanted a generic format - when I selected Y, it proceeded on its own from there What is the number on the master CD 17xxxx 170662 Are you able to boot with just the restore disk no CD and get a CD driver recognition Yes, during the bootup, it says it's DOS 6.20, restore version 2.2 and it finds the CD-563 CD ROM drive and loads the driver and makes it drive Y: The correct floppy for the 12CD is 142332 I have 2 floppies - one just restores the Command.com file and DOS directory to the hard drive and is not numbered; the other is the Win 3.11 recovery disk - BPCS# 142417. That floppy boots everything fine and allows me to start the restore - the tripping point is apparently either I'm using a wrong format # or the format # I have isn't loadable from that CD. Elector has it on his site What is the address for that? Assuming the CDROM has not been changed it appears to be original "SV" wrote in message ... I have a pair of 486 DX units that I'm trying to get in the hands of someone who can use them. One is a 66MHz machine (model BL 202?) that has all the restore software w/ it. The second is a Legend 12CD 50 MHz machine. Since they are so close in speed, I wondered if I could restore the DX2-50 w/ the software from the DX2-66. First I tried the format number from the 66 MHZ machine - restored fine, but there is a config.sys error and no CD drivers load. I went to the PriorityOne site, entered the serial number and, lo and behold, there's a format number listed on the materials list. I reformatted and tried again using that format # (555529) - I got a message saying that format number wasn't found, so I used a generic one. Same error message in config.sys and no CD drivers loaded. Does this mean that the CD likely doesn't contain the info for me to restore the 50 MHZ machine? Or am I doing something wrong? Thanks in advance for any help. JEFF |
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I will send you a special boot floppy to check the cr 563 integrity
Thanks for the help. I will wait to hear back from you on the CD. |
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