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To: <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
From: "Mark at Cross+Road's" <mark1 AT mich DOT com>
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Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2001 19:59:11 +500
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Subject: Re: Hard drive question
Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com


Nope, the drive does not give a letter or in other words I haven't increased
my partitions by any.  It's a Compaq and upon booting I know the computer
saw the new drive because it required me to acknowledge the changes with a
f1 before going on to boot.  I did set the drive 2 to slave according to the
pins and left drive 1 as master.  I don't recall if there's any other
setting on the 1st drive.
    Either it's something very simple that I am missing here or there's a
compatibility problem which isn't allowing the drive to be seen?
    I'm not all that aware about the master boot records but in this case
would that need to be rewritten in order for both drives to be used?
    How is that done in Drdos 703?  Does it destroy data when rewriting a
mbr?
     Thanks,
      Mark



On 2001-03-03 opendos AT delorie DOT com said:
   >On Sat, 03 Mar 2001 15:30:13 +500 "Mark at Cross+Road's"
   ><mark1 AT mich DOT com> writes:
   >> Hello All,
   >>     I've got Drdos 7.03 installed on a 486 and a 586 both on drive
   >> C.
   >>     I have a drive D on the 486 on which there are many back-up
   >> files and I
   >> desire to take this drive D and make it a D drive on the 586.
   >>     It's a slave on the 486 and I have moved it to the 586 also as
   >> slave.
   >>     Its not being seen or not being understood by the 586.  The
   >>bios  has
   >> accepted the install of a 2nd drive without a problem but I cannot
   >> use the
   >> drive it's not being accepted to read and write. I can bring it
   >>back  to the
   >> 486 and it works fine there.
   >>     How do I get those files to be seen on the 586 without having
   >> to
   >> reformat the entire drive on the new machine?
   >>         Thanks,
   >>       Mark
   >When you type "d:<Enter>) at
   >the DR-DOS prompt, does the
   >drive letter in the prompt
   >change, and if so, can you
   >execute a DIR command and see
   >filenames listed?  Is the D:
   >drive acessible if you boot
   >from a DR-DOS floppy or, for
   >that matter, an MS-DOS or
   >Win9x boot floppy?
   >What I suspect is that the
   >C: drive in the 586 is one of
   >those that has a different
   >jumper setting for "single-
   >drive" and "master with slave
   >present."
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