On 27 Feb 98 at 9:00, Dean Kukral wrote:
> I recently had a similar problem.  I was building an essentially new
> pc, and I was using a dos 7 boot floppy trying to fdisk the new 6.4
> WD drive.  Fdisk would seem to run ok, but when I re-started my
> computer, the os would not see the drive for formatting purposes,
> but it would see it to run fdisk!  I do not know what was wrong -
> perhaps a defective boot disk.  I finally ran fdisk from a hard
> drive with W95 on it (temporarily installed) and then it was ok.

This can apparently happen with certain BIOSes (esp Phoenix).
You end up with a partition that win95 GUI uses quite happily but
DOS 7.0 cannot write to. If you run a DOS 6.22 FDISK on it you will
see the partition marked "NON-DOS".
Solution is to FDISK with the /X switch to maintain compatibility
with DOS.

If you like I can send you a document that describes this INT13h bug.

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