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From: "Christoph Fuchs" <christoph DOT fuchs AT surfway DOT de>
To: <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: RE: DRIVE
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 18:25:28 +0100
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Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com

HI!
Sorry for my english, I know it isn't quite good (I'm a 15year old pupil;-).
I tried it the way you advised me to do, but it didn't help. I only put up
the new drive, and nothing more happend. I think it's something wrong in
there - the old drive works, but when I want to restart it with the "new"
drive in, the BIOS don't work - it doesn't count the RAM (with the old
drive, it counts it but it counts very noisy, I think this is not normal ,
too.).
As I said - I have no ideas yet. Normally it must work - I did the some
procedure with another computer and it WORKED. I think I must go to a
computer shop or I'll sell the pc in several parts.
Thanks for your help,

Greetings,

Christoph

>You have to have an active partition on the new disk.
>If it was not previously partitioned and formatted with
>system software then you can not boot with it.  Normally
>what you have described is the result of having a bare
>disk and you have to boot with the floppy, start fdisk,
>partition the drive, set the active partition, format the drive
>with /s option. Then you can boot with the drive.  With
>some DOS setup disks, when you boot with the floppy
>it detects the hard drive and advises you that is not a
>formatted drive, then asks if you want to set up  the drive
>and install the DOS files.  Then it automatically runs fdisk
>and formats it and runs the DOS setup for you.  If the drive
>is larger than 2.5 GB some of the older BIOS won't  let you
>use it unless you partition it to a smaller partition .
>The BIOS is not on the drive but is in a CMOS chip on the
>motherboard.  You have to hit the (normally) del key when
>the computer is first booting so you can enter 'setup' and
>set the correct parameters for the drive, i.e.
>(LBA) 1023CYL, 64 HD, 63 SPT  for a Seagate ST32132A.
>If this is not set first you will get a message on screen saying
>to insert a boot disk.  You must set the drive information before
>you can partition the drive.

>If the drive was previously installed with DOS/Windows,
>then you set the drive in the setup screen and it should
>run properly.  ""The computer must know what drive you
>have installed before it will recognize it""

>Good Luck'
>-----------------------------------------------------------------
>Bob 'DOMAN' Moss
>*"Remember, if you don't have chocolate*
>* you don't have food"!!!!.............*
>========================================