#WUTIL and MS-DOS 3.10
29-Jul-90 23:40:32
Sb: #21084-#WUTIL and MS-DOS 3.10
Fm: Willett Kempton 74036,3110
To: Roy Pasini 70516,1007
Roy and Len –
Thanks for the advice on WUTIL and DOS 3.10B. However, I was unable to
re-initialize an ST225 (20 Meg) with DEC's Winchester utility 2.0. It
thought the disk was a 10Meg and gave me two 5 meg CP/M partitions.
What worked was a "Format and Initialize" with WUTIL (under DOS 3.10.17),
then booting DOS 3.10B, using FDISK for the partition, and using DOS's
FORMAT E:/L for the final format. It seems to work fine, and I'm still
getting WUTIL's boot menu, which is great.
Roy, you suggested that I initialize with DISKPART or another 3rd party
utility. Since I don't have CHS DISKPART, I don't have any choice for
initializing my disk other than WUTIL, right? (Expecially if I go over 20
Meg.) Do you still think I'm going to get into trouble, using WUTIL only
to initialize the disk?
CHS DISKPART hasn't been released to the public domain now that the
company has disappeared, has it?
– Willett Kempton
ps. I'm using the old, not new I-drive, but since I've done FORMAT E:/L
that shouldn't matter anyway.