Hello Ian,

I don't know the correct terms to use here so I hope you can understand what
I mean. Also, I may be way off track here. I think there are three
possibilities:

1. You said you tried to use DOS to access your drives for ghosting
purposes. What exactly do you mean by using "DOS"? Are you dual booting win
98se and dos (i.e you have dos installed on your hdd) or did you boot using
a floppy ? If you are dual booting then therein lies your problem since dos
can't access fat 32 partitions.

2. If your booting from a floppy or cd then make sure it is a win 98 or win
ME boot disk since only these two can handle fat 32 partitions.

3. Are you using some kind of boot manager? If you are then it might be
hiding some of your partitions. This would mean that they would show up as
non-dos partitions in fdisk and would be inaccesible in dos.

My guess would be that you booted from a win 98 or win ME boot disk when you
fdisk-ed the drives, and for some reason  your booting from a win 95 or
earlier windows version bootdisk now. Make a fresh boot disk in windows,
boot using that disk and see if you can access all your drives.

Hope I have helped
Samad
Sri Lanka

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ian" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, April 14, 2002 1:33 AM
Subject: NON- DOS Bugs


> I didn't see any responses to my query about several of my hard drives not
> being recognised in DOS - maybe nobody has come across this particular
> problem before?
>
> Anyway, I did get a little further with this.  When re-formatting one of
the
> drives with Fdisk, I found that the drive (or rather, partition) was being
> designated as 'NON-DOS', a label I've not seen before.
>
> I haven't a clue as to how this happened - I'd formatted it with Fdisk
only
> a few days previously, and thought it had proceeded normally.  But
obviously
> not.
>
> Now, when I Fdisk check the other drive which is invisible in DOS, I see
> that it's labelled the same, Non-Dos, so I guess that explains it.
>
> My query: Does anyone know how to change this arrangement without
> reformatting the drive?
>
> Ian Porter
> Computer Guys
> Arrowtown
> New Zealand
> [log in to unmask]
>

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