First post, by 8bitfink
In Dos I can't select other drives, invalid drive specification error.
I know might be autoexec and config.sys though what are commands?
TIA
In Dos I can't select other drives, invalid drive specification error.
I know might be autoexec and config.sys though what are commands?
TIA
check you've configured the other drives in the BIOS.
Which drives can you see, and what are you expecting to see?
386sx25 SBP2 2M
P75(486) SB16 8M
P133 S3 Vir DX A64g 32M
P233MMX R128Pro A64 64M
Pii400 TNT2 Live! 128M
P3-1G V5 M80 256M
P3-1.4G R8500 A1 256M
A3200 9700Pro A2 512M
X6800 X850XT A2ZS 1G
E8600 X1950XTX Xfi 2G
QX9650 3870 Xfi 2G
i7-975 GTX570 Xfi 3GB
If the drive exists and is configured properly, you'll be able to access it. Nothing to do with autoexec and config unless they are specialized RAM drives or something which I doubt.
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Are the drive partitions larger than the version of DOS supports ?
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It is the CDROM and the other HDD. It was ok, then reinstalled Dos & Win98, now doesn't open other drive letters in Dos.
They are listed in BIOS.
Are you talking pure DOS, or MS-DOS mode from windows?
For the CD-ROM for pure DOS, the first step is getting it listed in BIOS which it sounds like you've done. Then you'll need to load a driver for the CD-ROM, something like MSCDEX
For the HD, was it autodetected in BIOS, or did you enter the cylinders, heads, etc manually? It's possibly mis-configured in BIOS
386sx25 SBP2 2M
P75(486) SB16 8M
P133 S3 Vir DX A64g 32M
P233MMX R128Pro A64 64M
Pii400 TNT2 Live! 128M
P3-1G V5 M80 256M
P3-1.4G R8500 A1 256M
A3200 9700Pro A2 512M
X6800 X850XT A2ZS 1G
E8600 X1950XTX Xfi 2G
QX9650 3870 Xfi 2G
i7-975 GTX570 Xfi 3GB
PureDos, Autodetected in BIOS.
Does the other HDD has partitions larger than 2GB? MS-DOS version up to 6.22 (and version 7.0 but I don't consider that pure DOS) usually doesn't support FAT32 partitions.
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That would be the case, is 3GB 🙁
Ok so If I partition them in half using FAT, that will work then yea?
Thanks.
Yes, both partitions should be FAT16. The downside is that all the data that is currently on that HDD will be lost by doing this.
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