Installation MS-DOS 6.22

[segatown]

Hi,
I have and  old electronic process machine that use OS MS-DOS 6.22. Last week hard drive fail, start showing error NO BOOT SYSTEM. I remove hard drive and install as slave on another machine but was not recognized. Hard drive was sound a "click" inside. I believe hard drive was dead.
I need replace that hard drive formatted with OS MS-DOS 6.22 but I don't have original diskettes. I download a file from web to make bootable a floppy drive and reboot computer.
After this, computer not detect the new hard drive to be format.
I edit autoexec.bat but only shows me next lines:
@echo off
MSCDEX. EXE  /D:banana /L:R

How can I format new hard drive if computer not detect drive c?

Thanks
Adrian

[BC_Programmer]

you need to run FDISK and create partitions on the new drive before they can be formatted.

[segatown]

Hi,
I already format hard drive but not boot.
How can I get installation disks?
I tried to order online by ebay but disks will takes almost a week and tomorrow 1/05/16 I need get done everything.

Who can helps me get electronically the disks?

[foxidrive]

Formatting in MSDOS needs to be done with the switch to transfer the OS boot files, and the partition has to be both a primary partition and marked active before you do that.

[strollin]

You can download a MS DOS 6.22 boot disk from here: http://www.allbootdisks.com/download/iso.html

You will need to put the image on a floppy disk and boot from the floppy disk then use Fdisk to create and activate partition(s), then run format c: /s to format and install the required system files in order to make it so you can boot from the hdd.

[Geek-9pm]

Explanation of fdisk:
http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/f/fdisk.htm

Use only the version of fdisk that goes with the OS.

[patio]

If you need DOS you should find and buy it....
Hint: Uni bookstores are a great place to start...

Just a bootdisk isn't gonna do it.

[Geek-9pm]

Anybody can buy a real MS-DOS 6.22 in a original package for prices taht vary from $30 to $49 on eBay.

(Image found on eBay.)
It is never free. Any stripped down version does not have the manual. Nor the product key.

But why version 6.22 anyway? Does it have something really recreant to current needs? There are 'freeware' DOS look-likes that can handle bigger hard drives.
And some freeware versions boot from either CD or USB.

[strollin]

If you need DOS you should find and buy it....
Hint: Uni bookstores are a great place to start...

Just a bootdisk isn't gonna do it.

It depends on the boot disk.  Here's the contents of the 6.22 boot disk I linked to:

MS-DOS 6.22
ATTRIB.EXE    
AUTOEXEC.BAT    
C.BAT    
CD1.SYS    
CD2.SYS    
CD3.SYS    
CD4.SYS    
CHKDSK.EXE    
COMMAND.COM    
CONFIG.SYS    
DELTREE.EXE    
DOSKEY.COM    
DRVSPACE.BIN    
EDIT.EXE    
EDIT.HLP    
EDIT.INI    
EMM386.EXE    
FDISK.EXE    
FIND.EXE    
FORMAT.COM    
HIMEM.SYS    
IO.SYS    
LABEL.EXE    
MEM.EXE    
MOUSE.@@@    
MOUSE.COM    
MOUSE.INI    
MOUSE.SYS    
MSCDEX.EXE    
MSDOS.SYS    
QBASIC.EXE    
QBASIC.HLP    
RESTORE.EXE    
SCANDISK.EXE    
SCANDISK.INI    
SETVER.EXE    
SHARE.EXE    
SYS.COM    
TREE.COM    
UNDELETE.EXE    
UNDELETE.INI    
UNFORMAT.COM    
XCOPY.EXE    

Certainly complete enough for what the OP needs to do.  I agree the OP should buy it but he wanted something he could download now, not wait a week to have it delivered.

[Geek-9pm]

The OP should understand  MS-DOS does not have any official support.
But the Free DOS project has an active community and the product is really free.
http://www.freedos.org/

FreeDOS is a complete, free, DOS-compatible operating system that you can use to play classic DOS games, run legacy business software, or develop embedded systems. Any program that works on MS-DOS should also run on FreeDOS.
It doesn’t cost anything to download and run FreeDOS. Even better, you can view and edit our source code. All FreeDOS programs are distributed under the GNU General Public License or a similar open source software license.

[segatown]

Hi to all,
Thanks to all for support. Operational machine is back with new hard drive.
I should use a really old hard drive capacity (4.3GB). Machine can detect and is running now.
Thanks

[OldTimeCoder]

The OP should understand  MS-DOS does not have any official support.
But the Free DOS project has an active community and the product is really free.
http://www.freedos.org/

While FreeDOS is free and works pretty good, there are some programs that just won't work or work right. I had problems with QEMM and windows 3.11 and had to go back to 6.22. I use a PIII machine with 384meg of RAM installed and FreeDOS had a problem accessing it. With QEMM and 6.22 256meg was recognized and usable. I triple boot on this machine MS-DOS, Linux, and WinXP. As far as support goes you really don't need it and if it is a problem where is is at?

I did have to throttle the PIII down to 500mhz to run DOS due to 1.2gighz was too fast.

[BC_Programmer]

I've had no issues booting FreeDOS on a Core i7 4770K with 32GB of Memory, but FreeDOS is limited to 4GB total address space as it doesn't support PAE.

Even on MS-DOS 6.22 I don't see any reason to use Quarterdeck's program. HIMEM.SYS is sufficient for XMS memory services, and EMM386 works well enough if you want to expose the 64KB HMA as UMB for DOS to use. I suppose it could be a consideration if you make heavy use of programs that use expanded memory, though I'm uncertain what QEMM even provides in that context.

[Geek-9pm]

For what it is worth...
Microsoft Finally Gave Away MS-DOS.

Now It Should Open Source Everything Else

[foxidrive]

For what it is worth...
Microsoft Finally Gave Away MS-DOS.

It's not quite as peachy keen as it sounds though - Dos 2.0 isn't quite on par to Dos 6.22

The source code for MS DOS 1.1 and 2.0 and Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a is now entirely free and public for the first time.