Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 11:21:14 -0600 (CST) From: David Lloyd X-Sender: dmlloyd AT mail DOT inxpress DOT net To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: How to find another partitions (was: Re: ) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: opendos AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, Pavel V. Ozerski wrote: > I use NT boot manager which does not change MBR. But only C: was visible and another logical drives become hidden > BEFORE installing NT, just after I made DR-DOS SYS C: command and replaced scrap of Win'95 given by seller to > DR-DOS 7.03. > > Norton utilities 8.0 DiskEdit reported about my partition table: > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > | | | Starting Location | Ending Location | Relative |Number of | > |System|Boot|Side Cylinder Sector|Side Cylinder Sector| Sectors | Sectors | > |BIGDOS| Yes| 1 0 1 | 254 260 63 | 63| 4192902| > |? | No | 0 261 1 | 254 1022 63 | 4192965| 22346415| > |unused| No | 0 0 0 | 0 0 0 | 0| 0| > |unused| No | 0 0 0 | 0 0 0 | 0| 0| > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- I believe that the problem is you clobbered your EZBIOS when you installed NT. You should start over, following these steps: 1. Reinstall EZBIOS. 2. Install DOS, *MAKING SURE* that you don't *EVER* boot off of a floppy disk without letting EZBIOS load first. When EZBIOS loads, press 'shift' or whatever the key is to get you into the menu, then hit the key to boot from a floppy disk. 3. Install NT, using the same method... boot into EZBIOS first, then use the keyboard command to boot from a floppy. I think the problem is that you may have forgotten to do this, and booted directly from a floppy. The main indication is your odd partition table. This is the actual 'physical' partition table. When you boot into EZBIOS, this 'real' partition table disappears, and instead a 'virtual' partition table takes its place. This partition table is where you actually make your DOS and NT partitions. But if you don't boot into EZBIOS, only the odd 'real' partition table that EZBIOS uses is visible. -- Dave Lloyd