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Re: Cannot get DOS to recognise HD
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Sergio Nemirovsky <[log in to unmask]>
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PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Mon, 13 May 2002 09:44:14 -0300
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Josh:

DOS only recognize FAT16 (or sompliy FAT) partitions....maybe the partition
you created is FAT32 ... Windows 98 uses FAT32 for "large drives"....

Boot from the Windows 98SE boot disk, and run fdisk , an then , Option 4,
Show Partition information...if the parition is under FAT32 format, you will
NOT see it from a plain DOS. You must repartition your disk (WARINIG: you
are deletingo ALL DISK INFO!) under FAT or FAT16 ...

If the fdisk ask you to Enable Large Disk support, say NO!

HTH.

Sergio



> I bought a used harddrive(WD 20GB UATA 100/7200rpm) from a friend and
cannot get DOS to cahange from A:> to C:> for me to be able to format it. Im
using a win98SE boot disk and it worked the first time i tried it, but i
done something wrong and shut down to start over and now this is the problem
im having. Please help.....i'm stumped....
>
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