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Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 13:22:19 +0000
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From: Dale Coleman <kf4sir AT earthlink DOT net>
Subject: RE: Hard drive question
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Hi all, I ran into a problem that might relate to the one in this thread.

I have a home made computer that had 2 hard drives in it and I wanted to 
switch to the second HD that was the slave and use it to experiment with 
DOS and BEOS.  It had no valuable info on it so I pulled the plug on the 
original main HD and switched the slave to master.

I could not get DOS to install and work on this drive until I zeroed the 
first sector of the drive.

More info on how to do this using Liniux is available at:
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/linux/LDP/LDP/LG/issue36/tag/61.html

I don't know how or if this can be done using DOS. But if you have access 
to a bootable CDROM and a bootable CD with Linux on it this might be worth 
trying.  It worked for me.

I hope this helps,

Dale

At 01:31 AM 3/5/01, you wrote:
>Be more cautious.
>
>First, check with FDISK to just display partition info for the drive - this
>will tell you if the drive is accessible, and perhaps give some more clues.
>
>Is the 586 MB old? Does it handle "> 1024 cylinders" OK? Did the
>486 have Disk Manager or equivalent, to provide an "Int 13 upgrade"?
>(just some ideas ...)
>
>Joe.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mark at Cross+Road's [SMTP:mark1 AT mich DOT com]
> > Sent: Monday, 5 March 2001 6:59
> > To:   opendos AT delorie DOT com
> > Cc:   editor AT juno DOT com
> > Subject:      Re: Hard drive question