Hi Lance,

    Responding to a post in the ALT_DOS area:
    On Saturday April 10 2004 at 09:34,
    Lance Lyon [3:712/313] wrote to All,
    about: DOS on large hard drives

 LL> I need to install DOS 6.22 onto a 20gb hard drive, I'm well aware that
 LL> it'll need 10 2gb partitions for it to see the whole drive, this isn't
 LL> a problem.

 LL> The computer has no problems recognising the drive (& I've had
 LL> Mandrake installed on this machine before utilising the full
 LL> capacity), but after partitioning with Partition Magic 8, DOS only
 LL> sees the first m2GB partition & point blank refuses to see the
 LL> extended partition as anything larger than 1.5gb & will not allow it
 LL> to be partitioned into logical volumes.

I've encountered similar problems with Partition Magic in the past...

If you've got Web access, I would recommend that you use Ranish Partition
Manager -- www.ranish.com/part/part240.zip

With this program, you should be able to wipe out _all_ previous boot
records (there is a possibility that Mandrake left something behind that
may be preventing full use of the drive).  PART will format the partitions
for you (but it won't affix labels to the partitions) and be sure to
specify which partition is the bootable one.  Reboot with a system diskette
that has SYS.COM on it; at the A:\ prompt, type SYS C: and it #_should_#
work when you try booting from the hard drive...

This program worked well for me when I partitioned three hard drives for
use on a Win98SE box (10GB, 6GB, 20GB).

           Cheers ... Gerald

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