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to: MIKE RUSKAI
from: Linda Proulx
date: 1999-11-17 12:14:06
subject: Re: file /query

Greetings and Salutations,

     -=> MIKE RUSKAI wrote to LINDA PROULX <=-

 MR> What that tells us is that all of your drives are FAT, and that none of
 MR> the partitions on drive 2 can be booted from, while any on drive 1 can
 MR> be booted from.

 LP> I haven't loaded Warp yet.  Each hard drive can be booted from if
 LP> necessary (in DOS) from their C partitions.

 MR> No, that's not the case at all.  The **BIOS: 504MB message up there
 MR> means that your BIOS is not doing any translation for the second

That is a DOS doublespace drive partiton.

 MR> physical drive. There is also no disk manager program present.  Because
 MR> of that, no partition beyond the first 504MB of the disk can be read by
 MR> the BIOS at all.  Since the first partition on that drive is 1GB,
 MR> neither it nor any after it can be booted at all, without turning on
 MR> translation, and repartitioning the drive entirely.

If hard disk 1 died, the C partiton of hard disk 2 is formated with /s
& I can boot from it if I needed to by making hard drive 2 my boot up
drive.

 MR> installing OS/2 will result in only one partition of drive 1 being
 MR> visible.

But I haven't installed it yet.

 MR> type 0x16, which is an invalid type, making the partitions hidden to
 MR> OS/2 (and anything else, until the type is changed back to 0x06).

But I made it see the 3 rd partition.

Anon,

Linda

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