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From: ron@woan (Ronald S. Woan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Need Help on getting Drive D
Keywords: Use FDISK and a different newsgroup!
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Date: 22 Aug 90 16:02:13 GMT
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In article <26D1068B.23978@orion.oac.uci.edu>eapu029@orion.oac.uci.edu
(Ming Shun Hsieh) writes: 
Wayne> A friend of mine has an IBM clone with a 44 meg. HD.
Wayne> Appearently, we can access to Drive A and C (he only has one
Wayne> floppy drive).  C partition has 32 megs, which leave 12 megs
Wayne> somewhere?  I suppose it was suppose to be at Drive D, but we
Wayne> just don't seem to be able to get to it.

Wayne> Could some knowledgable soul tell us the least trouble way of
Wayne> getting that Drive D to work?  As we already have a lot of
Wayne> stuff on C.

Wrong newsgroup sir! This is for RTs, not PCs . I have directed
followups to comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc, but maybe they should go to a
comp.os.msdos.* group. It seems obvious that this is a clone running
MSDOS, so here are a few scenarios:

	1. You are running MSDOS 3.3 or lower with BIOS that fully
	recognizes your drive type: use FDISK to create another DOS
	partition.

	2. You are running MSDOS 4.0 or greater with BIOS that fully
	recognizes your drive type: same as before, but you could have
	partitioned C: to be the whole drive.

	3. Your BIOS doesn't fully support your drive type: you need
	to get something like OnTrack's DiskManager or Storage
	Dimension's SpeedStor to manage your hard drive for you.

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