Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 10:09:45 -0700 (MST)
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To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
From: raster AT highfiber DOT com (Charles Dye)
Subject: Re: OpenDOS and Win95
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>On 98-01-17 Chris Wilson wrote:

>>I'm having problems getting OpenDOS to recognize my hard drive.
>>...

>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.

DxxSPACE on an 8088?  <shudder>  What a sinister idea!

Some viruses can also cause this type of behavior.  You might try
downloading and running this:  garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/virus/killmk3.zip
If this program finds a virus, I strongly recommend that you use it
to clean *every* floppy you own.

raster AT highfiber DOT com