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.

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

With 5.5 gig of storage, I can do anything!  Are you saying that
I should reformat my 540 meg drive as Standard/Normal NOW, instead
of how it currently is (LBA)?  Or are you saying what I should have
done at the time.  The way I had read it, I could format my drive
as "standard", then switch to LBA, and the only risk was a possibility
that my data would be hidden.  It wasn't.  

Is the short story that once you have formatted with LBA, you
can never switch to LBA?  BTW, why do I want LBA instead of
non-LBA anyway?

BFN.  Paul.
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