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i have win98se installed on my C drive but is still fat16 as shown by fdisk info and not fat32 but when i try booting via A drive with dos 6.22 or dos 3.3 i keep getting invalid drive specification when i type C: at the dos prompt. can anyone help pls? thanx
Name: tony Date: June 12, 2001 at 12:46:53 Pacific
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What you do not say is how laege your hard frive is? If it is bigger than 2Gigabytes then MS-DOS 6.22 (or older) will not recognise it, even if it is FAT16
hi tony, hard disk is quantum 850mb. i placed in normal mode primary hard disk 0 mb slave. theres also lba mode and large mode. cud these be the problem? which mode should i use? thanx.
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Name: Davis Date: June 12, 2001 at 19:21:42 Pacific
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I need help with that problem also. I get same error msg when I type c: I have 853Mb HD and want to reformat it and install DOS. The current operating system is Windows NT4.0. When I display partition info from Fdisk it reads Partition 1 Status A Type Non-Dos Size 813MB Pct Used 100%.
When I go into Bios Setup it reads IDE Adapter 0 Master (C: 853Mb) I want to remove the network card and all existing software from computer and have it boot to the C prompt. Please help.
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Response Number 4
Name: Davis Date: June 12, 2001 at 20:51:59 Pacific
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I think I found a solution to my problem in an earlier thread by W2k Man Date: June 09, 2001 at 11:11:31 Pacific Subject: No C:\ Drive ... Goof Up !!READ!!
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Response Number 5
Name: Louie Date: December 17, 2001 at 05:23:02 Pacific
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Hi! I had to format my HD basically cos I wanted to install a newer version of Win (Win98)(cos it wouldn't accept the upgrading). When I try to install that, my comp doesn't seem to recognise the C: drive at all: it says: invalid drive specification! can u help? Appreciate it!
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