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December 17th 03, 05:40 AM
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Dos boot disk does not see hard drive
Got 2 hard drives. C(NTFS,p. master). D(fat32,s. master).
I can't access C from a dos boot disk. no surprise there. but i can not access the d drive either. the only thing i can think of is that the drive(8gig) is not seen properly by the bios. it sees the size but not cylinders,etc. i can access the drive though in windows. ideas? deskpro 
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December 17th 03, 01:32 PM
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DOS does not have the ability to read NTFS or FAT32 partitions, has nothing to do with the drive itself.
-- ---------------------------------------------------------------- "Kev" wrote in message ... Got 2 hard drives. C(NTFS,p. master). D(fat32,s. master). I can't access C from a dos boot disk. no surprise there. but i can not access the d drive either. the only thing i can think of is that the drive(8gig) is not seen properly by the bios. it sees the size but not cylinders,etc. i can access the drive though in windows. ideas? deskpro
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December 17th 03, 06:35 PM
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David B. wrote:
DOS does not have the ability to read NTFS or FAT32 partitions, has nothing to do with the drive itself. i can access my fat32 drives in my other comp no problem from a dos disk.
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December 17th 03, 08:09 PM
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Kev wrote in :
i can access my fat32 drives in my other comp no problem from a dos disk. Depends on the DOS version. MS-DOS 6.22 (the last stand alone version) does not know about FAT32 drives. It could be you're using a Win98 or ME boot disk on one machine, which has a later version of DOS that does know about FAT32. There is no version of DOS that knows about NTFS.
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#5
December 17th 03, 11:01 PM
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In article , donutbandit
writes [Snip] There is no version of DOS that knows about NTFS. There is a driver that will read NTFS. And the paid for version will write it. Problem is I can't remember where I downloaded it from. -- Malcolm Ball Change delete to newsB for a valid reply address.
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December 18th 03, 01:12 AM
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"Malcolm Ball" wrote in message
... In article , donutbandit writes [Snip] There is no version of DOS that knows about NTFS. There is a driver that will read NTFS. And the paid for version will write it. Problem is I can't remember where I downloaded it from. -- Malcolm Ball Change delete to newsB for a valid reply address. http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/utilities.shtml
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