viktorcech wrote:hello, i buy CF IDE adapter and i trying first boot.. im using 16GB SANDISK CF card (formated, created 500mb partitions, formate […]
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hello, i buy CF IDE adapter and i trying first boot.. im using 16GB SANDISK CF card (formated, created 500mb partitions, formated FAT16).. but on boot i see only:
WAIT...
Primary master hdd: hdx 6.03 sandisk sdcfh-016g
and nothing........
in bios i have boot priority: A:, C:..
when i remove CF card, system trying reads from A:, but A: diskette not respons (no led flashing, no reading)..
hmmm, what i can do?
There are some limitations to how you can partition a drive under MS-DOS. If you make 32 * 500MB primary partitions on a 16GB drive, then it will not be MS-DOS compatible, and you won't be able to use it under MS-DOS, let alone boot from it. If you're going to use it with MS-DOS, then I'd suggest staying with a 4GB CF card and make one primary partition of 2GB and one extended partition of 2GB and make a single logical drive on the extended partition. This way, you'll have the best DOS compatibility, along with good usable partition sizes. As far as I know, you can have a maximum of 3 primary and 1 extended partition if you want the drive to be dos compatible. MS-DOS is a lot more picky about these things than more modern OSes. I would also recommend not partitioning a drive for use under DOS or Windows 95 using Windows 8. I somehow doubt maintaining backwards compatibility was a priority when MS made Windows 8.
Have you tried running the CF card as secondary master instead of having it on the same IDE channel as your HDD?
What I would do, is to try to boot from a Windows 98 boot floppy (you can find disk images online), with only the CF card on the IDE controller, and see if fdisk can see the CF card. If it can, then the fdisk /mbr would be the way to go, as that rewrites the master boot record on the CF card. This is what I had to do to make my CF cards bootable. Also, I'd delete all partitions on it and partition it using fdisk.
WinXP : PIII 1.4GHz, 512MB RAM, 73GB SCSI HDD, Matrox Parhelia, SB Audigy 2.
Win98se : K6-3+ 500MHz, 256MB RAM, 80GB HDD, Matrox Millennium G400 MAX, Voodoo 2, SW1000XG.
DOS6.22 : Intel DX4, 64MB RAM, 1.6GB HDD, Diamond Stealth64 DRAM, GUS 1MB, SB16.