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Hi: Just curious on what your Bios says , Try "Auto Detect Harddive" setting
Ray Carriere
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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.
>
> How does one get fdisk to see the rest? Is there a low level reformat that
> I can do?
> Any tricks? Solutions?
>
> Thanks in advance
> Nick Robinson
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