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echo: locsysop
to: Paul Edwards
from: Brenton Vettoretti
date: 1996-05-19 14:08:04
subject: help!

PE> Yes, I made sure of that.  Initially I didn't get the right answer
PE> for the old D drive (540 meg, FAT), so I changed them myself.  Not
PE> that I think that made any difference, I think the data would have
PE> been visible either way.  I couldn't find a way of getting my
PE> motherboard to force LBA for the 540 meg drive.  It chooses "LARGE".
PE> However, despite the fact that it always chooses "large", like I
PE> said, it was disappearing from my C drive's boot manager if I
PE> enabled LBA support on the disk.  Since then I have repartitioned
PE> the old 540 meg drive, and everything is fine, with LBA support
PE> (but still "large") and it appears on boot manager.

You *should* have made sure that it read Standard or Normal.
If you select anything other than Normal, then you will have to redo
the partition tables and reformat the drives. If you have written
ANYTHING to the drives, they are fucked and you'll have to redo the
entire lot from the FDISK stage.
@EOT:

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