Vipersan wrote:
You can't move a copy certain DOS files ..
presumably because they are in use ??
Probably just the main DOS files IO.SYS and MSDOS.SYS
The best way to get those off is to format a floppy with the /S option or use SYS to transfer them and make a boot disk also copying FDISK & FORMAT.
You could then install the modded BIOS with XTIDE, boot from the floppy, run FDISK, delete the old geomentry partition, create a new partition which will have the new geometry and format /s to put a bootable system back on the drive and finally transfer all the files back.
Vipersan wrote:Tomorrow I hope to tinker with using some 8gb Transcend 133x CF cards that arrived today..as hard drives ..
But I seem to rememb […]
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Tomorrow I hope to tinker with using some 8gb Transcend 133x CF cards that arrived today..as hard drives ..
But I seem to remember reading these have to be reconfigured as 'fixed' disks for DOS so that fdisk can recognise partition them ?
I believe an app was needed to make these changes..
can anyone help me out here ?
There is no need to do anything for DOS or any other operating system prior to Windows 2000, it will work just fine even as a removable as that status is ignored.
This was only a problem for later OS such as Win2K, XP etc.