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Cannot see hard drive when booted
Name: aatoms Date: January 17, 2005 at 07:51:32 Pacific OS: DOS 6.21 CPU/Ram: p4
Comment:
I have WinXP on promary NTFS and DOS on extended partition. Still have to use dos fro older stuff but when I boot from floppy, dos loads fine but I can't see my c: drive (or extended partition). Any ideas?
Name: jboy Date: January 17, 2005 at 08:08:58 Pacific
Reply:
Was this setup ever working (in DOS) prior to this?
Of course DOS loads fine from a bootdisk - why shouldn't it? Has nothing to do with the HDD
NTFS will not be seen by DOS, and DOS6xx won't see FAT32 partitions either
I'm not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?
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Response Number 2
Name: aatoms Date: January 17, 2005 at 08:20:13 Pacific
Reply:
But it's not FAT32, it's FAT16.
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Response Number 3
Name: jboy Date: January 17, 2005 at 08:36:01 Pacific
Reply:
Well, fine - at least that much has been established.
Once again: did the DOS ever work in this setup?
I'm not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?
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Response Number 4
Name: aatoms Date: January 17, 2005 at 08:59:31 Pacific
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All right! I think I found a solution, not straight forward but sounds promissing!
Check this out:
http://www.bcpl.net/~dbryan/ntfs-dual-boot.html
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Response Number 5
Name: Arcosanti Date: February 15, 2005 at 16:21:37 Pacific
Reply:
It's more likely that you have a huge hard drive and its size is beyond the capabilities of DOS 6.21 to recognize it which is why you can't see the C: drive. A drive overlay might resolve the problem but that would mean wiping out everything on that drive. And there is no garantee that this will work.
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