Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 02:27:54 +00
From: "Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AT HDD upgrade (:
Hi Andy,
Yes, I regognise your problems and I did solve likewise problems
a few months ago and I am working on two other machines right now.
But... you ask to many questions in one time.
*sorry everyone for all the mail and all my ignorant questions... (due to
a tragic disabilty i got into PC's very late (mid-90's) "in the game")
sorry again for all the mail and my ignorance regarding ancient PC
hardware (: :)
First: does the case has room enough for two hard disks?
If YES, install the second one and copy all the win 3.11 aplications to
the second HD to have the first HD free for DOS only.
How to install a second HD: in M$ DOS use FDISK. Jumpers on the 2nd HD
set for slave. The new HD must be formated before you can write to it.
To avoid problems with Fat16 or FAT32 systems (I suppose you now use
FAT16) do not install a HD larger than 2Gb.
After you reinstalled the win 3.11 OS you may have trouble with booting
up... that problem can be fixed.
If you just have room for one HD things become complicated, but can be
solved :-)
Regards, Bastiaan
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 22:59:06 -0400 (EDT), ANDY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I have a Very old computer...
> it is an AT-clone with a 386 DX 40mhz cpu
> it used to run Win3.11 before I deltree'd Win3.11 out of frustration
> yet it still has all it's Win3.11 software that I hope to use again when
> I re-install Win3.11
> now my OS om it is Caldera DR-DOS 7.03
> I have a number of new DOS apps that take up the room Windows used to
> take
> my 340 MB drive is packed and I am also using DriveSpace
> I need a new HDD
> where do I go from here?
> what is your recommendation for a new HDD that will fit my old AT case
> and BIOS(which has the option of a user defined drive(as was the 340 MB))
> ((in my BIOS user defined opt. it asks for cylinder, head, etc.
> numbers)) ???
> what size and model should i be looking for?
> and where would I purchase/obtain it?
> if I got a larger HDD installed, would i need to partition it?
> I've heard MS-DOS 6.22 needs a smaller or equal to 2 GB partition
> yet Caldera DR-DOS 7.03 is unlimited? what about Win3.11?
> and if I did obtain a new larger HDD how would I transfer the data from
> my current 340 MB HDD??
> I do have a parallel port iomega 100 MB zip drive yet how do I do a
> *DOS* back-up of my 340 MB HDD then restore to a new HDD using it? is it
> some DOS DISKCOPY command? will this allow me to smoothly back-up my
> current 340 MB HDD? with prompts when each zip disk gets full?
> please remember I only have DOS(Caldera DR-DOS 7.03) currently on this
> machine... right now it is not possible to re-install Win3.11 because
> my/the HDD is so full, so are there *DOS* back-up programs available and
> if so where would i obtain them or would some sort of DOS DISKCOPY command
> in conjunction with my zip drive be sufficient??
> thanks in advance for any help rendered,
> andy
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