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invalid version of DOS
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Name: alan S
Date: March 4, 2002 at 10:35:16 Pacific
Subject: invalid version of DOS
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Comment: I have a 1.2GB Seagate HD with W98 installed, went out there and bought a 6.4GB Quantum, hand written on it, was the followin 784 cyls, 255 Hds, 13,327 lunz, and 63 sec,
I mess around with the BIOS settings, trying to have a master/slave and vice versa, but the 6.4GB HD was never recognized. Now my seagate doesn't want to boot up, i have to use a bootable flappy disk and do cd windows/win then W98 is loaded,
I wanted a larger HD to burn my CDs since 1.2GB is not enough space, i also want to get rid of W98 and prepare my HD. for linux, but when i do a format c: there's a error message "invalid DOS version"
1)how do i come around this problem, or better yet what command should i use, fdisk or format
2)is my moutherboard to old for a 6.4GB HD, all i know about it is that it has a Am486DX-S on it.
3) any hints, why this 6.4 HD is not been recognized even on a newer DELL XPS B800 as a slave, I move the jumper around so many different way, nothing seems to work
excuse my inexperience
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Name: Chuck
Date: March 4, 2002 at 14:44:58 Pacific
Subject: invalid version of DOS |
Reply: (edit)well, first there is no way in heck you can burn with a 486, i put a burner in a (faster) pent 150 and it would not work. (makes costers)i dont know about linux. the boot disk is prob from win 95 or older, make a new one in 98. did you mess around with fdisk? it sounds like you dont have an active partition... go into fdisk and set the main partition active. (on the main menu) HD may be dead. in the BIOS you should be able to select auto or user and put those numbers in. you can change them around as long as it stays 6.4GB in the end. you have to do that on old MB's sometimes. (dont think it will work, to big), good luck,
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Response Number 2
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Name: brian
Date: March 10, 2002 at 00:48:18 Pacific
Subject: invalid version of DOS |
Reply: (edit)I agree prolly going to be too big. If you use Bios format you will have to format by typing format c: /s then re-enter c/h/s settings, etc. using fdisk, creating at least one active primary dos partition. not fun and can get messy. For instance, I did it and my cdrom has not worked since, and no windows 98 or cdgod can fix it.
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Name: fred6008
Date: March 10, 2002 at 03:41:01 Pacific
Subject: invalid version of DOS
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Reply: (edit) Did it say invalid version of DOS or wrong DOS version? Wrong DOS version means you are trying to use a different version of dos than the version of COMMAND.COM you have loaded. This can happen if you boot from a floppy and type FORMAT in the DOS directory on C: for example.
A 486 motherboard is probably not going to have autodetect. So you have to enter the bios and manually enter the Cylinders, heads and sectors for the D: drive.
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