Dear List: I am completely confused about formatting and fdisking. There is a "low level format" thing as well that my Pentium wont do, but the good old 386 will. I am told that to clean up a HDD you run fdisk, and then format.com with switches for HDD rather than floppy. It seems to be different with DRDOS which I use normally. Its fdisk seems to do the formatting.
Andy in a previous posting said that if there is no need for partitions then fdisk is not needed. The issue arises because I am still in the dark about why half my HDDs refuse to load UMSDOS system for Monkeylinux. It seems unrelated to what DOS is being booted, but to what DOS "made" the disk. SYS.COM does not seem to alter the acceptability of the disk to Monkey. Perhaps DRDOS fdisk is messing up my HDDs? Regards all Kali
