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Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 08:54:31 -0700
From: Thomas Webb <tawebb AT earthlink DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Hard drive question
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I have observed that drdos fdisk doesn't do the mbr quite the same way
as MicroSoft. On Toshiba lap tops in particular, I have to use an MSDOS
utility disk with fdisk/mbr first, then install DRDOS and everything
comes out fine. 

Dale Coleman wrote:
> 
> 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

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