Re: DOS and Harddrive Capacity

"Jim Richards" <jimrichards@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Using XP Pro w/SP2. When I Boot to A:\ and go into FDISK, it shows the
maximum capacity of the harddrive as 48935 GB BUT it is a WD 120 GB HD
formatted NTFS. Is there anyway to get DOS to read the correct capacity of
the HD? Thanks in advance, Jim.

No, you ain't using XP anything if you boot DOS from a floppy.
BTW: which DOS? Which version, and which FDISK?

Forget about DOS and FDISK, use Mikhail Ranish's Partition Manager
instead. This one comes as it's own OS and runs just using BIOS calls.
Executing PART.EXE from Windows and will create the boot floppy.

If you don't want to fiddle with your BIOS' settings (disable booting
from floppy and/or CD-ROM, both are a security risk!) enhance the
XP boot manager to start any floppy disk using my BOOTSECT.ANY from
http://home.nexgo.de/skanthak/bootsect.html

Stefan


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