fsmith2003 Posted November 12, 2016 Share Posted November 12, 2016 I have a Tandy 1000 TL/2 computer that I acquired recently. I had to replace the hard drive and a floppy drive. I formatted the hard drive and have successfully transferred files over to it from some disk. However, I can not load any games from the hard drive. These same games will load just fine when running from the floppy itself. The weird thing is is that small utility programs, such as setuptl2 will run just fine from the hard drive. But with every game I have tried so far it will skip to the next line in the command prompt like its going to load but just freeze there. I've let it be for nearly 30 minutes once trying to load SImCIty. Any idea what might be causing this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turbo-Torch Posted November 12, 2016 Share Posted November 12, 2016 Have you tried a different version of DOS? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fsmith2003 Posted November 12, 2016 Author Share Posted November 12, 2016 I have not. How might I go about installing another version of DOS on here? It currently has DOS 3.3 on the built in ROM that it boots from. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turbo-Torch Posted November 12, 2016 Share Posted November 12, 2016 You should be booting off DOS on the hd. I think 5.0 was always my favorite. I had an SL but I can't remember the procedure on disabled the internal rom version. I think it also made a virtual ram drive using C: which could also be causing a conflict for you. Search for a PDF of the user manual. I bet Radio Shack's site has it as a free download. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fsmith2003 Posted November 12, 2016 Author Share Posted November 12, 2016 (edited) I've installed 5.0 on the hard drive and set bios to boot from disk. Its the same result as the games. It acts like it wants to load up but just freezes. The hard drive doesn't make any noise likes its even trying to read anything. I can copy, paste, and write all day long to the hard drive but for whatever reason it acts like it doesn't know how to open programs for some reason. I cant think of what else I could do? Edited November 12, 2016 by fsmith2003 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turbo-Torch Posted November 12, 2016 Share Posted November 12, 2016 (edited) That's odd. Can you copy a large file off the hd back to drive A without problems? Maybe try booting off the DOS 5 floppy in drive A and do a fresh format of C (with system files of course). Edited November 12, 2016 by Turbo-Torch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fsmith2003 Posted November 13, 2016 Author Share Posted November 13, 2016 Yes I can move files of all sizes from the hard drive to floppy. Can't get it to boot to dos off of hdd even after fresh format and install. Could this be a memory issue or something I wonder? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turbo-Torch Posted November 13, 2016 Share Posted November 13, 2016 (edited) What is in your autoexec.bat and config.sys files? Particularly your files and buffers? http://www.computerhope.com/ac.htm Edited November 13, 2016 by Turbo-Torch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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