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From: NU115247@NDSUVM1.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Equipment on a XT and DOS 3.3 problem
Message-ID: <3104NU115247@NDSUVM1>
Date: 6 Nov 89 07:51:24 GMT
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computer Network, Fargo, ND
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I have a strange problem that I'm hoping someone can help me with,
I recently reformatted my hard disk with DOS 3.3 and now for some
reason, the computer thinks it has 6 disk drives (A - F).  I have
3, two 5.25 floppies and a 20 meg HD.  I'm running Norton Commander
2.0 and when I switch drives, it gives me a choice of A - F, if I
try to pick one of the upper three, NC says that the drive is unaviable.
I ran Norton Disk Doctor on the drive and it fixed a problem with the
partition table, but there are still 6 drives listed.  Also, when I
tried to use FASTOPEN, it said that drive C was not a hard disk.  Does
anyone have any ideas what is wrong?  Where does the computer find what
equipment it has on startup?  My computer is not a true blue, just a
cheap clone, could the BIOS be causing a problem?  Thanks for any help
or advice anyone can offer.  By the way, I was useing DOS 3.2 before
and it never gave me problems...

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