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From: amichiel@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Allen J Michielsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: XT's and big hard drives -- PROBLEM
Message-ID: <1991May22.152743.22810@rodan.acs.syr.edu>
Date: 22 May 91 15:27:43 GMT
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In <@qiclab.scn.rain.com> leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Leonard Erickson)
>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 () disk manager cause the machine to crash.

>The bad news is that you are going to have to backup all the files....
>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.

   You don't HAVE to backup all the files, but that;s the easiest way, or 
lose them.  You don't have to under almost all conditions remove the partitions
just low level format the drive and start over again.
   You can, try to, just remove the second partition, &/or/or-not make the
root partition the full size all under 3.3 or whatever.  THEN boot dos 4
and start over again with fdisk.  I suspect that removing both partitions
then using dos 4 fdisk is all that;s required, but either way, all files 
will be lost.  Format the drive again, and....  If you only remove the second
partition, there is other software like spinwrite that should allow you to
'reformat and correct' the drive to a single 40 MB parition under dos 4.
al


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