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My hardware:
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Pentium 133
American Megatrends P5I437 BIOS
1.7GB HDD primary master
CDROM as primary slave
1.28GB HDD as secondary.
BIOS settings on the HDDs are "auto"
I currently have Dos6.22 and Win95 and have been trying unsucessfully to install (dual boot) NT on FAT partitions. I've been tried both NT 3.51 and 4.0
I know I can have DOS 6.22, win95 and NT on the same computer! I've seen it done on several!
The first try, all went "well" with 3.51. On the first run, I opened up disk mgr to take a look (no changes were made) and rebooted... then nothing worked! Boot floppies and Emrg Repr disk didn't help.
I am now missing part of my primary HDD.
The 1.7 has 4 partitions of 320, 420, 300 and 250 = 1290MB
The 1.28 has 4 partitions of 300, 400, 249, and 255 = 1204MB
I've looked up the microsoft knowledge base, and done the following:
- disabled 32-bit access at BIOS, enhanced transfers, power saving, etc
- replaced win95 boot system and tried reinstalling over and over...
- replaced the atapi.sys and atdisk.sys with the service pack's version
- replaced the atapi.sys with Seagate's (the primary HDD) own atapi.sys
- messed around with trying to change the BIOS settings on the HDDs
- tried installing NT onto C:
- named source and destination directories on C:
- checked for viruses
Why doesn't using LBA mode bypass the 1024 cylinder limitation on NT? would such small partitions totalling less than 1024 cylinders each affect it?
Does win95's wierd arrangment of partitions across 2 HDDs have anything to do with this?
C: E: F: G: primary master HDD
D: H: I: J: secondary master HDD
M: CD-ROM
(now missing K: partition from the primary)
(L: is a disconnected CDROM drive)
Thanx for taking the time to read all this and thanx in advance for your help!
Zak
P/S: might this be related??
couple of mths ago when I had only a primary 1.28GB HDD (4 partitions) and a CD-ROM as slave, I "succesfully" installed NT3.51 on the D: partition, NTFS, and as part of an excersize removed it using DOS 6.22's SYS C:
I lost 25% of the HDD and nothing such as Fdisk/mbr, reformatting would fix it, and any attempts to reinstall simply showed the error mess "NT cannot locate the partition created by NT setup". OK I know not to mess with NTFS, but...
(NTFS partition was not even accessible by NT boot floppies nor when I attached drive as a slave, onto a computer with a working NT 3.51)
Had to resort to low level preformat to fix!
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Pentium 133
American Megatrends P5I437 BIOS
1.7GB HDD primary master
CDROM as primary slave
1.28GB HDD as secondary.
BIOS settings on the HDDs are "auto"
I currently have Dos6.22 and Win95 and have been trying unsucessfully to install (dual boot) NT on FAT partitions. I've been tried both NT 3.51 and 4.0
I know I can have DOS 6.22, win95 and NT on the same computer! I've seen it done on several!
The first try, all went "well" with 3.51. On the first run, I opened up disk mgr to take a look (no changes were made) and rebooted... then nothing worked! Boot floppies and Emrg Repr disk didn't help.
I am now missing part of my primary HDD.
The 1.7 has 4 partitions of 320, 420, 300 and 250 = 1290MB
The 1.28 has 4 partitions of 300, 400, 249, and 255 = 1204MB
I've looked up the microsoft knowledge base, and done the following:
- disabled 32-bit access at BIOS, enhanced transfers, power saving, etc
- replaced win95 boot system and tried reinstalling over and over...
- replaced the atapi.sys and atdisk.sys with the service pack's version
- replaced the atapi.sys with Seagate's (the primary HDD) own atapi.sys
- messed around with trying to change the BIOS settings on the HDDs
- tried installing NT onto C:
- named source and destination directories on C:
- checked for viruses
Why doesn't using LBA mode bypass the 1024 cylinder limitation on NT? would such small partitions totalling less than 1024 cylinders each affect it?
Does win95's wierd arrangment of partitions across 2 HDDs have anything to do with this?
C: E: F: G: primary master HDD
D: H: I: J: secondary master HDD
M: CD-ROM
(now missing K: partition from the primary)
(L: is a disconnected CDROM drive)
Thanx for taking the time to read all this and thanx in advance for your help!
Zak
P/S: might this be related??
couple of mths ago when I had only a primary 1.28GB HDD (4 partitions) and a CD-ROM as slave, I "succesfully" installed NT3.51 on the D: partition, NTFS, and as part of an excersize removed it using DOS 6.22's SYS C:
I lost 25% of the HDD and nothing such as Fdisk/mbr, reformatting would fix it, and any attempts to reinstall simply showed the error mess "NT cannot locate the partition created by NT setup". OK I know not to mess with NTFS, but...
(NTFS partition was not even accessible by NT boot floppies nor when I attached drive as a slave, onto a computer with a working NT 3.51)
Had to resort to low level preformat to fix!
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