Help again: DOS access to a dual-hard-disk setup? - China DOS Union Forum

Maybe I didn’t explain it clearly last time, so I’m asking for help again.
My computer has two hard disks installed. One 4.3G hard disk is the primary drive, divided into three partitions, C, D, and E, all in FAT16 format. The other is a 40G hard disk, divided into several partitions, all in FAT32 format. The motherboard is too old, and the BIOS cannot recognize the slave drive (large-capacity hard disk). Under WIN2000 I installed an IBM boot software package, and only then could the large hard disk be found and partitioned under the WIN system. Under Ghost and the pure DOS system of Win98, the second hard disk cannot be found. I have the WIN2000 system installed on drive C, WIN98 on drive D, and XP on drive F. Right now I use ghost to make backups, backing up WIN98, but I can only do it
under Win98. The DOS7.10 boot system also cannot find the second hard disk. I want to back up the system under DOS, with the backup files stored in some partition on the large hard disk. Could some expert please give me a solution? Thanks.

Floor1　gjgjgjgj	Posted 2003-06-09 00:00
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Maybe I didn’t explain it clearly last time, so I’m asking for help again. My computer has two hard disks installed. One 4.3G hard disk is the primary drive, divided into three partitions, C, D, and E, all in FAT16 format. The other is a 40G hard disk, divided into several partitions, all in FAT32 format. The motherboard is too old, and the BIOS cannot recognize the slave drive (large-capacity hard disk). Under WIN2000 I installed an IBM boot software package, and only then could the large hard disk be found and partitioned under the WIN system. Under Ghost and the pure DOS system of Win98, the second hard disk cannot be found. I have the WIN2000 system installed on drive C, WIN98 on drive D, and XP on drive F. Right now I use ghost to make backups, backing up WIN98, but I can only do it under Win98. The DOS7.10 boot system also cannot find the second hard disk. I want to back up the system under DOS, with the backup files stored in some partition on the large hard disk. Could some expert please give me a solution? Thanks.

Floor2　xxtt99	Posted 2003-06-09 00:00
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Go to http://z80.wx-e.com/myopus/dm_p.htm and download the universal bilingual Chinese-English edition of DM V9.56. It can support old motherboards recognizing large hard disks. Also, can such an old machine handle running so many systems? [ Last edited by SNOWOLF on 2005-8-21 at 21:25 ]