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Hard drive won't work in dos

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Name: Elias
Date: April 20, 2004 at 01:07:55 Pacific
OS: Dos 6.22
CPU/Ram: Pentium 4 1.6/512
Comment:

I created a boot disk for dos 6.22 and so far everything is going 'ok'. Just one minor issue... I'm not sure how to get my hard drive to work.

I currently have windows xp as well. Is the reason my hard drive isn't working because it is formatted for windows xp? Please let me know about how I can fix this problem.



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Response Number 1
Name: Woof
Date: April 20, 2004 at 02:13:49 Pacific
Reply:

If you have XP chances are your drive is formatted NTFS which dos can`t see unless you have installed a patch.
These are available from here:

http://www.sysinternals.com/
http://www.sysinternal.com/
or http://www.wininternals.com/
or http://www.wininternal.com/

HTH

Woof


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Response Number 2
Name: Elias
Date: April 20, 2004 at 14:38:34 Pacific
Reply:

I am using the FAT32 file system. I can get my hard drive to work with higher versions of dos, just not 6.22. I am fiddling with conventional memory settings in dos 6.22 but don't know how to do the same thing in higher versions, which is why I need to use 6.22.

So I suppose I can either get the hard drive to work with 6.22 or I can learn how to fiddle with dos 7.10 memory settings. If anyone has information on either that would be great.

Thanks

Elias


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Response Number 3
Name: jboy
Date: April 20, 2004 at 14:44:10 Pacific
Reply:

Yeah - 622 will only work with FAT16 (or FAT12) disks.

You can read more about DOS7.10 here


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Response Number 4
Name: Woof
Date: April 21, 2004 at 09:33:02 Pacific
Reply:

How big is your hd?

Woof


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Response Number 5
Name: raska
Date: May 7, 2004 at 17:35:02 Pacific
Reply:

I have a problem, the computer recognize my disk on the setup, but it doesn`t boot from the hard disk. So, i tried booting from a floppy disk, and when I do that, I can read and write on my hard disk, it`s so weird. I have windows98, so i went to the windows`s folder, then to win.com and I got the blue screen:
VFAT DEVICE INITIALIZATION FAILED
A device or resource required by VFAT is not present or is unnavailable. VFAT cannot continue loading.
System halted.

Hope somebody to help me.Thanks.


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Response Number 6
Name: raska
Date: May 7, 2004 at 17:37:07 Pacific
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I have a problem, the computer recognize my disk(samsung 3.2 Gb) on the setup, but it doesn`t boot from the hard disk. So, i tried booting from a floppy disk, and when I do that, I can read and write on my hard disk, it`s so weird. I have windows98, so i went to the windows`s folder, then to win.com and I got the blue screen:
VFAT DEVICE INITIALIZATION FAILED
A device or resource required by VFAT is not present or is unnavailable. VFAT cannot continue loading.
System halted.

Hope somebody to help me.Thanks.


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