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To: <viking AT flying-brick DOT caverock DOT net DOT nz>
From: "Mark  F.  Warchol" <mwarchol AT flash DOT net>
CC: <OpenDOS AT delorie DOT com>
Date: Sun, 09 Aug 1998 09:12:25 +000
Subject: Re: Help needed with invalaid partition table
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  Hello eric,
On 1998-08-09 viking AT flying-brick DOT caverock DOT net DOT nz said:
 vi>On Sat, 8 Aug 1998, Mark  F.  Warchol wrote:
 vi>::    I have recieved the above error "invalaid partition table" on
 vi>a two ::hardisk system.  The error has come after replacing the
 vi>master hard-disk ::with a larger size.
 vi>Ahhh, wrong thing to do straight away...read on...
 vi>No, this is not specifically a DR-Dos error - it happens with ALL
 vi>versions of DOS I know of - in fact it happens with Linux too, if
 vi>that's any consolation.
 vi>To cure the problem:
 vi>Plug in the old master drive (you do still have that, don't you?) as
  Yes I do and I have tried plugging it back in without any problems.

 vi>master, plug in your _NEW_ master drive as a *SLAVE*, fdisk the
 vi>second drive with the partitions you want.
  OK I have tried that.

 vi>have a floppy to boot from) swap drives (slave for master etc),
  OK I have done that and used the floppy because that's the only way
I can get control in this state.

 vi>boot off floppy, run fdisk again on master drive (just to check
 vi>partitions and that one of them is ACTIVE)
  OK, I have done that and normally there is not an active one so I do make
the first partition on my "new" master drive active and recheck it to show
that it has really stayed, and it has.

 then copy DOS to new
 vi>partition.  This can be done if you are using the Install Disks (a
 vi>5 disk set) starting from the boot floppy of the set - it's pretty
 vi>much a simple job of inserting disk in drive, and either rebooting
 vi>or running setup from the drive.
  *I haven't done this at all, what I did was to have the Drdos#702 already
on the "new" master drive but only copied from the prior master drive, I
didn't run set-up at all.
  *I don't have the disk set just the installed directory and or the large
install program from the net.
  *Is the next step at this point to just run the drl702.exe and let install
do it thing and then when I next reboot it will all be there?
  *Please write back to verify!  Everything is the same as I have done upto
this very last step!
     Thanks,

 vi>If anything here is incorrect, please will someone correct it -
 vi>this is just what has worked for me...