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#NT doesn't like me.

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#179097From: Dennis FenskeJul 9, 1995 8:54 AM
I guess I'm not so fortunate in installing NT. I put it on one system, everything seemed ok, but somehow after a few days, I no longer can access one of my partitions in DOS. I never was able to access it in NT. So I have about 1Gig of data that is in limbo. It is on a Micropolis 2217A drive. Fdisk says there is are two partitions there, but when I boot up it starts to load DMDRVR.BIN, then says there is nothing there that needs it, so it doesn't load. I will contact Micropolis tommorrow unless someone has a suggestion today. Any suggestions? Thanks, Dennis
#179104From: John EllisJul 9, 1995 10:47 AM
What kind of controller do you have? 🙂 John
#179136From: Dennis FenskeJul 9, 1995 2:23 PM
John; It is just a plain IDE controller, but VLB card. It was working for a few days. I even transferred files from one partition to another to make some space. Then I noticed yesterday I couldn't access it any more. Dennis
#179175From: John EllisJul 9, 1995 8:01 PM
Dennis, Its really hard to say what could have happened. I'd look into how the bios was setup to handle the IDE, which is actually an EIDE which has different requirements. Your best bet is to call Micropolis or make a visit to the Winnt forum… John
#179198From: Dennis FenskeJul 9, 1995 10:32 PM
John; >> Its really hard to say what could have happened. I understand. I did notice someone talking about the WinNT forum, so I popped over there for some possible help. So far, no responses, but it is the weekend. Thanks for the help. Dennis
#179225From: John EllisJul 10, 1995 1:22 AM
Sure Dennis, hope you get it worked out. I suspect you will have to activate LBA and reformat your hard disk… they should be able to provide you with a file on use of EIDE hard disk setup for NT.