Sam,
Is the HD formatted as FAT16 on both computers?
Are you using the same bootable floppy to try to boot both computers or did
you create different bootable floppies from each computer?
Is one computer using a compression routine such as Stacker, etc.?
Roger Turk
Tucson, Arizona USA
Sam Heywood wrote:
. > Hello:
. > I have a problem.
. > Problem:
. > I have WIN95 installed in two computers.
. > To some people that alone might count as two problems, both of which
. > could easily be solved by "DELTREE WINDOWS", but then I would still
. > have two problems in that they would both be running MS-DOS 7.00
. > instead of a good version of DOS.
. > What I really want to do is to boot the computers with DR-DOS 7.02
. > from the A Drive. When I do this with one of my two computers the
. > hard drive isn't recognized. ("Invalid drive specification" error)
. > I don't know what the problem is with the computer whose hard
. > drive can't be recognized by DR-DOS. Whatever the problem is, it has
. > nothing to do with the BIOS date or the hard drive size.
. > I have a Toshiba Satelite Pro laptop with a BIOS date of 2/26/99 and
. > an 810 MB hard drive. The drive is not partitioned into separate
. > logical drives. My hard drive will be recognized when I boot
. > from the A drive by using a WIN95 boot disk. (MS-DOS 7.0) If I use
. > a DR-DOS 7.02 boot disk my hard drive will not be recognized.
. > Also I have a Monorail Model 133 having a BIOS date of 7/15/95 and
. > a 2.2 GB hard drive. This drive likewise is not partitioned into
. > separate logical drives. On this computer my hard drive will be
. > recognized when I boot from the A drive with either a DR-DOS 7.02
. > boot disk or a WIN95 boot disk.
. > I have always been told that DOS has problems recognizing large hard
. > drive partitions if the machine has an old BIOS. Various DOS
. > versions also have different limitations as to the maximum size hard
. > drive partition it can recognize. In the case in point, the machine
. > having the newer BIOS and the smaller hard drive will not recognize
. > its hard drive when booted to DR-DOS 7.02 from the A drive. How can
. > this be, and how can I fix the problem?
