#Partioning HD –HELP!
05-Mar-95 09:54:22
Sb: #157092-#Partioning HD –HELP!
Fm: Dennis Fenske 72163,3252
To: Bill Rouady 74230,3247
Bill;
>> make sure your BIOS is capable of handling large IDE disks.
Thanks for replying. I have a new motherboard (January 1995) with new BIOS.
It finds and recognizes the drive fine. It is just that when I try to access
it, it says
"Invalid media type reading drive D Abort, Retry, Fail."
A main message is
"XBIOS not loaded! Bad or missing XBIOS.OVL file Self checking DMDRVR.BIN
*ok* No partitions found requiring use of driver DMDRVR.BIN not installed Run
DMCFIG from diskmanager diskette to remove the driver files."
XBIOS.OVR is in the ROOT of the C: Drive.
If I run fdisk, it shows one partition 1551 Mbytes of a NON-DOS type. It also
says total disk space is 504 Mbytes.
If I delete the partition and make a new one I get
1 PRI-DOS partition of 504 Mbytes. If I try to create a second one, it says
"No space to create a DOS partition"
I guess I will have to call Micropolis.
Thanks for trying!
Dennis