Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 09:02:50 +0800 From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: my brain hurts [LIB]
At 07:25 AM 9/03/2002 -0800, you wrote: >Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2002 15:19:08 >From: "neil barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: my brain hurts [LIB] > > >>I just booted my L110 from the FDD / Win'98 recovery diskette (Shift+F5), >>from cold. >> >>I just don't get it - how can C: and D: and E: "see" the whole 8GB, 1GB, and >>20GB respectively??? No Win'2K, no fancy BIOS-enhancing software, absolutely >>nothing... > >I'm *guessing* here, but didn't you previously partition the drive in the sizes you >mention? If that's the case, I'd suspect that windows sees the partition info and >calculates sizes accordingly. If the directory info is at the front of the disc, as >it would be if you've just rebuilt everything, then it will be able to read that >without problems and probably some, or even all, of the files. > >It might even be able to write new files,(95 wouldn't) but I'd be very careful about >using it without testing. > >Actually (major speculation mode) it occurs to me that as w98 only uses the bios at >initialisation, that is might be quite happy once things have booted. Anyone got a >big disk to experiment? You don't actually need the BIOS overlay for Win98 and above (until you need to boot into DOS mode for recovery) ... in fact, Win98 does bypass the BIOS once it boots which leads to interesting things like Win98 detecting drives that exist but that you've told in the BIOS don't exist ... a nice trick if you don't want a new drive to ruin your drive letter assignments (because when Win98 bypasses the BIOS, its already assigned drive letters to the drives the BIOS tells it about). - Raymond --- /~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\ | | "Does fuzzy logic tickle?" | | ___ | "My HDD has no reverse. How do I backup?" | | /__/ +-------------------------------------------| | / \ a y b o t | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | HTTP://www.raybot.net | | ICQ: 31756092 | Need help? Visit #Windows98 on DALNet! | \~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~/ ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
