Autoboot with pts dos

[antonioarcorreia]

Hello,

Im having a issue. I have a machine that uses a HDD with pts dos, and the problem is that i connected this HDD to windows to check it (didnt copy or delete any file but windows did something)
So this HDD did auto-boot in the past with that machine, now the HDD doesnt start the auto-boot process and i can only access it connected at secondary HDD (had to place another primary HDD with the auto boot of pts dos)

My question is: how do i fix the auto-boot? Maybe windows messed up the master boot record to access files and that is why it does auto-boot when i start the computer.

Is there any way to fix this and put the HDD with auto-boot working again without loosing the files?

Many thanks

 

[Alabalcho]

What is "pts dos"?

What do you know about DOS and its commands? Do you have a reliable backup of the data on that (now, non-bootable) HDD?

 

[antonioarcorreia]

I used to use MS-DOS yes. PTS-DOS was something similar to DOS but was like a open source or something from Paragon.
I have no backup of the data. it's a game machine called photoplay from funworld.

What is "pts dos"?

What do you know about DOS and its commands? Do you have a reliable backup of the data on that (now, non-bootable) HDD?

 

[Alabalcho]

Connect non-bootable disk as second drive to machine which boots, and there go to C:\ prompt. Execute FDISK, change to the other disk, make sure the partition is active. You might also try "fdisk /mbr" to re-create MBR record.

But before that - with that disk on your Windows computer, make a full backup of that drive.