First post, by bestemor
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Ok, so here I thought this should be a walk in the park, but no such luck.
Trying to partition and eventually format some small hard drives for FAT16/DOS use.
When using PartitionMagic and/or DiskManager in WinXP, everything looks peachy, same goes for Fdisk via Win98 dos prompt.
But when transplanting the disk into its destination 'machine', and installing DOS 6.22, it does often not see any of the extended/logical partitions I made. And when I try to partition again, and then format, there are size problems.
Here I have a 4GB hdd, already prepped with 3 partitions in XP, but...
Primary ca 950mb, then ca 1500mb each for the 2 logical ones - that is the plan anyways.
- Before I go into any more detail, someone might have a clue as why fdisk on genuine DOS 6.22 is having trouble using the full disk ?
(First I just let the setup.exe rip, which gave me no options whatsoever and ended up with a single 2gb partition, which after install/reboot would not boot into DOS)
Here are some screens of second attempt after (once again) killing(?) the partitions in PMagic/DiskManager XP.
1. Managed to install DOS, and create a D: partition, but with country.sys not getting loaded apparantly. (even after a total re-install! weird...)
2. Trying fdisk again to get full usage:
3. Showing what's already done, note the extended and total sizes:
4. D-drive size is ok, sorta, but where is the rest of the space ('beyond' 100%) ?!
5. Final insult... (bottom message)