Davey Brain wrote:
 
> I just installed an 80G hard drive in a cheap new machine I built (AMD
> Duron 1.3Ghz ECS MB 128M SiS chipset). I partitioned it using Partition
> Magic 6.0. This is the layout:
 
> C: Primary: 1G: FAT16: PCDOSBoot
> Extended with 7 logicals:

Because you used Partition Magic 6, your extended was made type 0Fh.
This just wont do for PC DOS (or standard Warp 3 or Warp 4). Change it
to the standard type 05h.

> D: 2G: FAT16: DOS01
> E: 2G: FAT16: DOS02
> F: 10G: NTFS: Win2KBoot
> G: 20G: NTFS: Win2KApps
> H: 20G: Unformatted, future eCS
> I: 20G: Unformatted, future Linux
> J: 7.8M at end in case I need Boot Manager
 
> Now I installed IBM PC-DOS 6.1. I fully expected to see 3 partitions,
> C&D&E. I don't, I see only the 1G "C" partition. I
suspected I'd run
> into the "over 2G" problem. So I researched it on the web
and I didn't.
> My 2 partitions, D&E, are 2,097,119,236 bytes (according to Win2K, just
> installed today). According to EVERYONE on the web 1G=1,073,741,824
> bytes. DOS is supposed to handle up to 2,147,483,648 bytes. So I'm
> within the limit.
 
> Now to DOS this is a huge hard drive and I expected to only use 5G for
> DOS (I still love those old games and they still play best in real DOS).
> Why isn't DOS seeing these partitions? Is there some new super-extended

Not new. Invented around 1996 for windoze.

> partition for logicals on a big hard drive that won't let DOS see the
> extended partition? Can I get around this?
 
As above. Many ways how. Look below.
-- 
"Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord."        Psalm 33:12 NIV

 Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409

Felix Miata  ***  http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/partitioningindex.html



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