Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Old DOS boot disk for W95?

Jon Anderson wrote:

> Jon,
>
> I quickly bloody my nose (figuratively) when I start messing with
> computers at this level. Don't think the disk is compressed. However I
> just have spent the last half hour or so trying to get it to recongnize
> another HD I have. I can get the computer running from the 3.5" boot
> disk, but it refuses to see the other HD. The BIOS sees it, as it picks
> up the heads, cylinders, etc, but the HD settings are greyed out and I
> can't access them for anything. It's an Acer.
> I think I can get all the needed Ahha files on a floppy, but will have
> to check for INI files referencing C: drive.

Wait a minute. What size is the disk, and what size partitions does
it have in it? Older DOS versions couldn't handle large partitions,
or find normally recognizble DOS partitions if they started too many
MB after the beginning of the disk.

Are both hard drives IDE disks?

One other thought - there is a lastdrv command (I think that's the
right name) that tells the command interpreter the name of the
last drive that can be mapped to a drive letter. Look in either
config.sys or autoexec.bat. Also, the line that sets up mapping
for a CDROM drive often had a drive letter in the command,
so check for that. It works like that on my system, and the
letter in the command is D: by default.

Jon