To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 14:55:28 -0700 Subject: Re: DRDOS FDISK Message-ID: <20000918.151710.-577105.0.domanspc@juno.com> X-Mailer: Juno 4.0.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Juno-Line-Breaks: 1-3,5-12,14-34,36-49,51-55,57-67 X-Juno-Att: 0 X-Juno-RefParts: 0 From: Robert W Moss Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Thanks guys. We have not had this much traffic for months. I thought everyone had gone into hibernation. I have not used the newest versions of DRDOS but I have used 3.1 & 5.0 & 6.0 & NDOS7. I only had troubles with 5.0 when upgrading from MSDOS2.11 /3.3. I also had a couple of notes on FDISK below. Thanks again, BOB 'DOMAN' MOSS "Eat chocolate every day!!!" On Sun, 17 Sep 2000 11:15:41 -0600 "Patrick Moran" writes: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Charles Dye" > To: > Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2000 5:01 PM > Subject: Re: DRDOS FDISK > > snip < > 1. FDISK, remove all unwanted partitions and logical drives. > 2. Exit FDISK and COLD BOOT the computer. i.e. turn > off the computer and turn back on. > 3. FDISK and create the partitions you want. > 4. Exit FDISK and COLD BOOT the computer. > 5. Format using the /X /U parameters. (There is no /X for MS as far > as I > know. that is a safety feature for DRDOS to format a fixed > drive. /n is used to designate a hard disk format. I don't recall when it started. > 6. If it is to be the boot drive for an MS OS then also include the > /S > switch. > > I have either heard of or ran across something about using SYS.COM > to > install the system files. I cannot recall what it was now, nor what > DOS or > version of DOS may have had some problem with it. Pat > /s is an FDISK call for sys.com to add the (3) three boot and system files to the newly formatted drive. Another funny thing was that when installing DRDOS5.0 it formatted your hard disk and you lost everything on the drive. If you were upgrading you had to backup all your application data files and reinstall all your apps, then restore your data files. > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. > http://im.yahoo.com > ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.