Mail Archives: opendos/1998/01/20/12:26:02
On 17 Jan 98 at 2:55, in the matter of Re: OpenDOS and Win95,
Matthias Paul wrote:
> On 98-01-17 Chris Wilson wrote:
> >I'm having problems getting OpenDOS to recognize my hard drive. ...
> >It works fine with LOADER when I install it on the hard drive.
> What happens, if you try to boot from your XT s fixed disk without
> LOADER installed? Do you have other operating systems installed on
> this machine, too?
>
> >But I want to be able to boot OpenDOS from a disk.
> Floppy disk, I guess? ;-)
>
> > I have this problems with both of my computers.
> >...
> >Pentium with Windows 95, the other is an 8088. The Pentium came
> >with a 1.6 GB hard drive, already formatted. The 8088 has a 32 MB
> >hard drive,
> So it looks as if you would *not* have run into this nasty FAT32
> problem... ;-)
>
> >The only thing I can think of is that OpenDOS doesn't recognize the
> >hard drive partitions.
> Do you have a disk compression software (DRVSPACE?) or security
> driver installed? What does DR-OpenDOS FDISK know about the drives
> partitioning? Please try a clean boot with F5/F7/F8 to get rid of
> any extra driver, and try to access your C: drive from this minimal
> setup.
>
> Hope this helps (please tell us your results),
>
> Matthias
It occured to me that it might be also a problem arising from having
fdisk'd the drives with the Win95 fdisk. I have heard that this
version of fdisk writes some strange codes as partition identifiers
(?) that other OSs cannot interpret correctly (including older
versions of MS-DOS). And that the fix is using a different fdisk to
remake the partitions (after backing up all data of course). I may
not have all this quite correct. Sorry that i have no reference for
the info. It is fairly widely known.
soren andersen
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