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missing hard drives in dos

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Name: CiberWolf
Date: January 9, 2001 at 17:51:09 Pacific
Subject: missing hard drives in dos

Comment:

Hello, I am wondering if someone can help me
do a diagnossis here.
I have three hd, on a p166. I just changed the mobo/processor I origionally was using.
The problem is that upon booting up the new mobo, the disks would not boot, the bios however recognizes them corectly, and fdisk sees that they exist.
I just encountered a really odd event though in that WHILE running win9x they are usable, but only when I use win95. In native dos mode though I can't reach them. Any help in finding out at least what is wrong would be nice, even if I can't fix it

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Response Number 1

Name: The Doofus
Date: January 9, 2001 at 22:06:14 Pacific

Reply: (edit)

Add the line:
lastdrive=z
to your config.sys file. That should fix it.

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Response Number 2

Name: W0rm
Date: January 9, 2001 at 22:36:29 Pacific

Reply: (edit)

you mention win95
are you dual booting?

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Response Number 3

Name: The Doofus
Date: January 9, 2001 at 23:12:03 Pacific

Reply: (edit)

Good point, W0rm. Of course DOS 6.22 or
lower wouldn't see FAT32 partitions. Should
have thought of that myself.

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Response Number 4

Name: CiberWolf
Date: January 10, 2001 at 09:10:03 Pacific

Reply: (edit)

No no dual boot, and I was sure to use a dos > 7 boot disk, so the fat32 partitions should have been supported, however, it didn't help, and now, I am getting a vfat initialization error. Could the missing drives be result from a corrupted bios boot procedure.

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