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Name: farl Date: March 6, 2004 at 19:01:29 Pacific OS: Dos 6.22/Win3.1 CPU/Ram: Various
Comment:
Following on the thread http://computing.net/dos/wwwboard/forum/14168.html I purchased the bios upgrade kit and now O/S's on both computers see their full 1.6 & 1.7 Gb hard drives. Had to use W98SE boot disk to partition and format drives drives and let DOS 6.22 reformat drive. Strange exercise as 6.22 & 7.10 boot disks would not access full drive from fdisk(only got the 512mb bit) but the w98se boot disk would. Have not tried a HD over 2 GB. Hope this of use to group.
Name: Wengier Date: March 6, 2004 at 19:33:08 Pacific
Reply:
farl,
I believe you have used FreeDOS' FDISK (Free FDISK) in that old super dos 7.1 boot disk, and Free FDISK was the cause. You can find MS-DOS 7.10's own FDISK from this standard MS-DOS 7.10 boot disk:
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