I am not sure what you did to end up with a "NON-DOS" partition, but
there is a problem with your terminology. FDISK is used to set up
partitions, not to format a drive. The proper steps are to use FDISK to
create partitions (mark areas of the disk to be used for some operating
system). You then need to mark one of the partitions as ACTIVE, which
means the partition will be used to boot from. Finally, you need to
format the partition by the operating system that you will be using.

Before we can help you, it is important to know the actual steps you
performed when you say that you "formatted" the drive. Remember that
FDISK does NOT format; it only creates (or deletes) partitions.

Peter

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-----Original Message-----

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

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