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Re: Large Disk Problem (Available docs RTFMed)
On Wed, 21 Aug 1996, Stas Bekman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to put my DOS partition, between 900M and 1600M on 2G disk.
>
> I've read all the Docs I've found, by they all talk how to fix the >1024 cyl
> under linux, How do I do it in Dos? Dos' FDISK can't create partition,
> which is beyond the 1G, so I did it with linux fdisk, Dos' FORMAt to format,
> but Dos can't access the data beyond 1G?
>
> Any ideas?
>
> My Disk: Master IDE, 2G, CHS=2046/32/63
>
I guess I understood you right ...
Does your BIOS have LBA ? If not - do you have Disk Manager ?
If not - you cannot get access behind 1024th cylinder under DOS.
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