Thanks for the recipe. BTW, can I do all this using a USB bridge to the HDD? I don’t want to rip open my good LT to put drives in and out. Don’t have a box or other LT that I could do that to.
I have tried using Ultimate Boot disk but it really doesn’t recognize drives attached via USB as HDD’s. I can’t get the Command structure on it. I’ve tried formatting but it won’t make it a system disk and the /s tag doesn’t work from command prompt.
Beat me : ) I am old skool... I like direct-to-the-bus, so I keep a couple boxen on my benches just for such purposes...
DOS? Yeah it will... Just format, then (with DOS dir pathed) Go sit in the root of C: and type SYS C: (assumes full DOS, and SYS.COM is present)... It has always been stupid about SYSing from a non writeable drive... I think it assumes you are on a writeable and checks where you are, rather than the drive itself... NO, WAIT. If you have the drive hooked up USB, DOS cannot see USB without drivers (which suck,, btw)... but if the drive is on the bus the above ought to work.