Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!bnrgate!bwdls58!mlord
From: mlord@bwdls58.bnr.ca (Mark Lord)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Creating another partition
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Date: 19 Oct 90 14:15:58 GMT
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In article <628.2719DE7C@gisatl.FIDONET.ORG> david@gisatl.FIDONET.ORG (David Deitch) writes:
>You won't believe this, but back on 11/Oct/90 (was a Thu BTW) at
>about 14:46, this guy Stephen Chung said this to All:
>
> > I am currently running DOS 4.01 on an 80M IDE drive.  I want to create
> > a separate partition (maybe 10M or so) so that DOS 3.3 can recognize
> > it when I boot it up from a floppy.  The problem: I don't want to
> > backup my hard disk (I have about 40M of stuff and no tape backup 
> > unit).
>
>     Why go to any of this trouble?  The file formats used by 3.3 and 
>4.01 are the same.  Only the utilities are different.  Simply set up 

Simply because the file formats are NOT the same in this case.
Specifically, DOS 3.3 does not recognize huge DOS 4.01 partitions.

For the original poster:  Back it up, and reformat/partition from scratch.
It's the only sure way to end up with proper FATs for both partitions.
I have tried what you suggest in the dark past, and it didn't work.

Not wanting to backup the drive is no excuse, as you ought to be doing that
on a regular basis anyway if you value the contents of your hard drive.

Besides, it's FUN sitting there spoonfeeding your computer !  :)
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