Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!zephyr.ens.tek.com!tektronix!reed!ames From: ames@reed.UUCP (S.Taimi Ames) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: DOS 5.0 partition table Message-ID: <16534@reed.UUCP> Date: 25 Jun 91 23:19:40 GMT References: <1991Jun17.162242.8068@amd.com> Reply-To: ames@reed.UUCP () Organization: Reed College, Portland OR Lines: 31 In article berk@techsys.UUCP (techsys consulting) writes: >ching@brahms.amd.com (Mike Ching) writes: > >> >> I use a bootstrap program that lets me boot from any hard disk partition. >> There were some changes in the partition table going from DOS 3.3 to >> DOS 4.0 that kept the bootstrap from working. Anybody know if DOS 5.0 >> has changed the partition table? I'd hate to overwrite the boot sectors >> and end up with a disk that won't boot. Thanks for any help. >> >> Mike Ching > >If you're 4.0, 5.0 will install no sweat.. What is it with DOS 5 partitions anyway? There are confirmed problems if you use DOS 5 FDisk to change a NEC 3.3 partition, or a Disk Manager partition (with the first, you get an occasional "FATs don't match" message when the FATs really should; with the second, DOS's new Mirror program won't run on any but the C drive). Is DOS recording partition information differently? Is it not changing the old partition information? Is it something to do with the fact that NEC 3.3 DOS allowed >32M partitions? That DM allowed more than 1024 cylinders on the drive? Any ideas? thks taimi ames@reed.edu