From: Bill Morrow - http://thinkpads.com (penzance_at_icanect.net)
Date: Thu Sep 03 1998 - 14:53:00 EDT
James..
this may not be a help, BUT.. :-)
i just put the original 701 files on a 3.2gig drive for a fellow..
(i must note here that the 701 runs win 3.11 fast..!!)
since i always check out HDD's and i do a bunch at a time, i use win95B and
fat32 to test them..
i leave one fat32 partition.. the whole HDD.. (up to and including the
8.1gig)..
SO, how does this impact you..??
since this fellow wanted the original 701 preload, i had to make fat16
partitions.. a bunch of them..
i used pq magic.. and when i was done, i copied the preload and tried to test
it in a 701..
NO GO..
workee not.. :-(
I have NO IDEA what or why PQ Magic and PCDOS 6.3 do not seem to like each
other.. or maybe it was win95B and fat32 doing something..
the point is.. i had the same (sort of) problem with PQM and PCDOS 6.3..
I finally just deleted the partition info and started from new, using PCDOS
6.3 load diskettes to do it all, THEN i copied the 701 preload and all was
fine..
I hope this clears up something.. :-))
James P. Grenert wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Sep 1998, Bernd Meierhofer wrote:
> > I think the command fdisk /newmbr may solve this problem
> >
> Since this is FDISK run from within the OS/2 installation, I don't have
> any control over command modifiers.
>
> A little more information to clarify my problem:
> I used Partition Magic to shrink C: down to ~400MB, moved it up 1MB to put
> in Boot Manager, and then I created an extended partition with a ~100MB
> logical D: drive. However, when I run the OS/2 Advanced Installation,
> FDISK only shows a C: drive of 513MB and nothing else. This is especially
> strange to me because I shrunk C: down to about 400MB with Partition
> Magic. As I said, the FDISK program from PCDOS sees the D: partition, and
> Windows 3.1 sees it as well. It is only the FDISK program in the OS/2
> install software which does not show the D: drive (and thinks that the
> whole 540MB drive is C:).
>
> Someone suggested that I had exceeded the 1024 cylinder limit. I thought
> that might be the problem, so I made D: about 30MB smaller, and it still
> wouldn't show that the D: drive existed. Also, PQMagic showed that D:
> only extended until about the 500th cylinder. So, I don't think I've
> exceeded the 1024 cylinder limit. I may try shrinking the disk some more
> just to make sure.
>
> Thanks again for any help.
> J. P. Grenert
> grenert_at_mayo.edu
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