Message-ID: <20000702121109.21287.qmail@nwcst288.netaddress.usa.net> Date: 2 Jul 00 06:11:09 MDT From: Joseph Morris To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Subject: Of large disks (Was Re: Fw: PTS-DOS) X-Mailer: USANET web-mailer (34FM1.5.01) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id IAA17795 Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Bernie wrote: > I only tested it on my 10.1G HD (FAT16) to see if it could see it all > (it's supposed to be able to do that as well) but only the primary > parition was seen (atleast MS-DOS 6.x can see up to the 8.4G limit). > I wonder if they know what they are doing... Is your system set up properly to see the rest of the disk? In order for this to work, you need to have a type 0F extended partition, which can extend out beyond 8.4GB. This partition type can only be read by Windows 95, Linux, or a regular DOS with a special driver. If you got an Ontrack disk with your HDD, it should have ontrackd.sys on it. If not, you can 'borrow' it from the demo version of Ontrack EasyRecovery which you can download from their web site. Be warned, it seems to cause GO32-based applications to freeze. Fortunately these are rare now, and it hasn't had any other side-effects. The main problem is that you need some monster FDISK to partition the thing, it needs to support LBA, otherwise it won't work, and it will trash the partition table if you run it after the partitions are set up correctly. I use the Linux fdisk myself, and I printed out the spec of the partition tables so I can rebuild them if necessary. The free-dos fdisk is supposed to be able to do this, but I never seem to have it around when I need to do partitioning, which isn't often, so I haven't tried it yet. (www.freedos.org) ____________________________________________________________________ Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1