File Manager: Make System Disk Fails (59656)
The information in this article applies to:
- Microsoft Windows 3.0
- Microsoft Windows 3.0a
- Microsoft Windows 3.1
- Microsoft Windows 3.11
This article was previously published under Q59656
You cannot use the Make System Disk option from the Microsoft Windows File
Manager on a floppy disk that was not formatted under the same version of
MS-DOS currently being used.
For example, if you have a floppy disk that was originally formatted under
MS-DOS 3.30 and attempt to make it a system disk on a machine running
PC-DOS 4.01, the process appears to work but the disk isn't bootable.
NOTE: This is a restriction of MS-DOS, not of Windows.
| Modification Type: | Minor | Last Reviewed: | 7/7/2005 |
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| Keywords: | KB59656 |
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