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From: leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Leonard Erickson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: XT's and big hard drives -- PROBLEM
Message-ID: <1991May21.175618.19307@qiclab.scn.rain.com>
Date: 21 May 91 17:56:18 GMT
Article-I.D.: qiclab.1991May21.175618.19307
References: <1991May15.071642.11071@lynx.CS.ORST.EDU> <1991May15.072231.11848@lynx.CS.ORST.EDU>
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larsen@CAS.ORST.EDU (Scott Larsen) writes:

<I have an XT that I have a 40 meg hard disk in.  I am currently running
<ONTRACK'S Disk Manager to partition it off.  THis is under MS-DOS 3.2

<However, under 4.01 (The OS I would LIKE to use) disk manager causes
<the machine to crash.

<How can I use disk manager under 4.01 or use something else to get
<my machine to recognize a 40 meg hard disk?

You only need a special driver for big drives on versions of DOS prior
to 3.31. 3.31 and 4.xx support large partitions.

That's the good news. The bad news is that you are going to have to
backup all the files on your HD. Then you are either going to have
to use Disk Manager to remove the current partitions, or you are going
to have to low-level format the drive. Then boot off a 4.01 disk, run FDISK,
(to create the new 40 meg partition), and then format the drive.
-- 
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