CompuServe Messages

The "fake" drive refers to the drive assignments that jdisk.sys creates when it is loaded on the msdos side. Jdisk.sys is a Janus driver which permits creating psuedo drives using Amiga devices which can be accessed through the Janus interface on the PC side. Jdisk.sys will allocate drives D through G, assuming the only "real" drive is drive C:. The MSDOS setup will actually find these drive assignments, even though you have not run JLINK.COM and try to read them. That's the reason you get the error message for these drives. Removing jdisk.sys will get rid of that. However, that doesn't address the real problem. I had a similar problem trying to set up Dos 5.0 from the distribution disks. Assuming that you first booted from the 6.0 disks and performed first an FDISK, then a FORMAT on the hard drive, you might try running FDISK again and rewriting the MBR. It's possible that the MBR didn't get written or was corrupted. If that doesn't work I would suggest you install 6.0 onto some floppy disks, re-format the hard drive (FORMAT C: /S) from 6.0, then just copy over the files. That was the only way I was ever able to get 5.0 to work. There seems to be a problem with MSDOS and the BB when it comes to the hard drives. MSDOS seems to have aproblem recognizing the hard drive as legitimate, hence the error message.