Nick Robinson wrote:
>
> Won't go into the gory details unless necessary.
>
> After partitioning and formatting a 6.4 gig drive into 3 ea 2 gig
> partitions with the first one a Pri Dos, then rejumpering as master and
> setting active it would not boot (I did do the format /s thing). Gave
> nonsystem disk error, as if no operating system or not active, both of
> which were true.
>
> So, I cranked up fdisk again (from floppy a:) to do it all over, and after
> deleting the pri dos and ext partitions, I went back to set primary dos
> again.  To the option "use all disk" I said N(o) and it then showed 1811
> Mbytes as total available.  Since it should read 6234 (approx) I now have a
> drive with no partitions with 4.4 gigs missing to fdisk.

Was this done on the same machine, with the same drive controller and
the same CMOS settings?  If the HDC, and subsequently DOS, could
recognize the full 6.4GB inially then it should be able to recognize it
later with the same settings.  Are you positive that the jumpering and
the CMOS configuration are correct?  If you were doing this on a
different machine or with a different drive controller, then the BIOS
may not be new enough to recognize a drive of that size.  Or the CMOS
may not be configured properly.

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