The FDISK command in MS-DOS is not backward-compatible. Last night I used the FDISK from a 98 boot disk to partition a hard disk (FAT16), then used its FORMAT to format it. But when I booted with a DOS 6.22 boot disk, it actually said it couldn't find the hard disk. Then I ran the DOS 6.22 FDISK command and it still couldn't partition it either (it also said the hard disk didn't exist). In the end I had to use other tools to repartition it before DOS 6.22 would recognize the hard disk. Sigh, seriously, it had me running around for nothing for quite a while.
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Seems like it's a FORMAT problem, right? Not an FDISK problem.
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Generally speaking, if there's no problem with the partition, DOS 6.22 should be fine. Post the DOS 6.22 FDISK error message.
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Then if you use an MS-DOS 7.10 boot disk, can it find the hard disk?
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Yes. I forgot the detailed error message, anyway it meant about that.
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It's not "not backward-compatible", it's that old stuff can't recognize new stuff.
If DOS 6.22 partitioned and formatted it and then 98 couldn't recognize it, that would be called "not backward-compatible", right???
If DOS 6.22 partitioned and formatted it and then 98 couldn't recognize it, that would be called "not backward-compatible", right???
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Use 6.22 to partition and format it; 98 uses LBA mode.
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