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
... It's as easy as 3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841!
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