File Manager: Make System Disk Fails

Last reviewed: November 23, 1994
Article ID: Q59656

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Windows operating system versions 3.0, 3.0a, 3.1, 3.11

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.

KBCategory: kbtool kbinterop
KBSubcategory: win30 win31
Additional reference words: 3.00 3.00a 3.10 3.11 boot disk bootdisk

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Last reviewed: November 23, 1994
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