installing DOS 3.3 on the hard disk drive

[LouisStDubois]

I have two Tandy 1000 TX computers which have no operating system installed on their hard disk drives.  I have a copy of DOS 3.3 which is the OS disk which came with the Tandy 1000 series computers.  What instructions must I include on the floppy to get it to install a bootable OS on these hard disk drives?   Thanx for any help. 

[Dinosaur]

Louis

You will need a bootable floppy disk, that you must boot up on, on the Tandy.
This floppy disk needs: (besides being bootable)
Format.com
Sys.com

Make sure these are the same version as your Dos on the bootable disk.

Then once the floppy has booted, type at the prompt
FORMAT C:/S/U  and Enter

(S stands for System and C stands for Unconditional)
Not sure if that version supports /U but if it doesnt, simply type
FORMAT C:/S


Once you have completed that, then you decide what to put on the disk.

Regards

[Ossa]

If you need to repartition the drive, you might need to run FDISK first.

Ossa

[MichaelW]

If I remember correctly, MS-DOS 3.30 had a 32MB partition limit. I think before you change anything with FDISK, you should first check to see how the disk is currently partitioned.

An index into some detailed information for one particular version of the 1000 TX, including a FaxBack document that covers installing DOS/DeskMate:

http://support.radioshack.com/support_computer/1160.htm

A FAQ with a lot of information on the entire Tandy 1000 line (slow and/or overloaded server):

http://www.oldskool.org/guides/tvdog/1kfaq.html

I also found a long listing of FaxBack documents in the form of zipped PDFs, but I lost it somehow.