Mike's PCjr Page

So I decided to 're-create' my Kings Quest disk using an IMG file. Before I overwrote my disk I decided to try it out on a blank disk, and it doesn't appear to have worked. I get nothing when the system attempts to load the game (the drive accesses is for a moment but then it stops). I tried both th...

Things *appear* to be working fine now. Looks like I had two problems: 1. The tray was actually on the power cable for the disk drive so it wasn't resting 100% flat 2. I appear to just have some iffy disks. I think the drive might not be 100% and a dodgy disk is a bit too much for it. I still get er...

jharre wrote:Perhaps when the bottoms of the posts broke off they left debris under the motherboard that is preventing you from fully seating the drive assembly?

That could be, but I don't recall seeing anything when I looked (I had the same thought). I'll double check tonight just in case.

There is no way that the drive is too tall. You must not have the drive tray fully installed; the plastic friction feet have to go through the case holes at the bottom of the case, not just sit nestled in them. That was my first thought as well, I can't believe the clearance between the drive and t...

I've confirmed that the problem is indeed the case rubbing against the disk drive. I'm going to swap the drive out with the original one and see if that solves the problem. Otherwise I guess I can't keep the monitoring the case anymore.

Got it all working. My first problem (the hanging problem) was fixed with the FDISK /MBR command. The second problem of the missing system files was a little trickier. SYS C: didn't work for some reason, it kept saying that there wasn't enough room on the C: drive so I was forced to reformat it with...

Ok, how do I use the sys command then? Id rather not have to reformat the hard drive.

Yes I did.

Yes the partition is set to active. I booted with my dos 5 boot disk, used the fdisk program to make a primary active dos partition, formatted it (I didn't use /s like I said), created a dos directory, then copied over all the files (I was given a disk with them already expanded). How do I use the m...

I double checked, the c drive is patched and I have stacks 0,0 in my config.sys. The weird thing is that the jrIDE freezes at the boot menu, it doesn't even appear to check the Dom (no light flash on the jrIDE).