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?
Please help,
Sam Heywood
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