from me:
> I don't think you can overwrite the Windows FAT32 drive that way. If the RD is
> created as C:, any reads or writes on C: will be from or to the RD, and won't
> touch the Windows partition.
Clarence Verge responded:
>I wish it were guaranteed, but unfortunately I did exactly that a year or
>so ago when I tested my first Arachne boot disk on a friend's W95box.
>I think I used PCDOS 3.3 on that one. :(
>Using DOS 5.0 now, so not sure. Will try it as soon as I can find a junk
>W9x box.;-) I'm also afraid to try it on my main box which has a big
>non-DOS partition.
You mean you trashed your friend's W95 installation? How big was that
partition, and what was the file system? I think PC-DOS 3.3 can't see anything
more than 32 MB. Or was that Arachne boot disk able to read the W95 partition?
There were times when I couldn't access my hard disks, when the Iomega Zip 250
external SCSI became C: but was not bootable. I was later able to re-fdisk
using Linux fdisk from installation diskettes, and I got back the real C:; I got
back the DOS and old Linux partitions without reformatting. But the data on the
second hard disk was apparently FUBAR, and I had to re-fdisk and reformat.
Fixed-disk partition was not affected by Zip drive taking over the letter C:.
