Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!apple!oliveb!orc!bu.edu!bucsf.bu.edu!eggbert From: eggbert@bucsf.bu.edu (Eugene Wang) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Avoid mangling your hard drive with DMDRVR.BIN Message-ID: Date: 14 Apr 90 22:52:34 GMT References: <18605@boulder.Colorado.EDU> <10343@portia.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@bu.edu.bu.edu Organization: Boston University Lines: 23 In-reply-to: liberato@drivax.UUCP's message of 14 Apr 90 03:14:52 GMT >>>> On 14 Apr 90 03:14:52 GMT, liberato@drivax.UUCP (Jimmy Liberato) said: (stuff about DMDRVR.BIN and partition information in driver) > Can anyone comment on this? It is not readily apparent to me that the > partition information is stored in DMDRVR.BIN. On the one occaision in > which I temporarily moved the directory which contained all my drivers to > an extended partition (clever!) I was able to rescue myself by borrowing > another DMDRVR.BIN from a completely foreign and differently configured > system. I was able to access the extended partitions with no difficulty. > The two files were of different size, however. But either worked. As having been corrected in my answer by another poster, the actual partition information is stored in the hard disk. DMDRVR.BIN just contains the translation information for DOS to find and use the partition information on the hard disk therefore there is no need for a specific driver for each hard disk. -- Eugene Wang eggbert@bucsf.bu.edu