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Article #160512Re: Privateer
From: TC
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 09:15
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 09:15
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On Sat, 15 Feb 2003 16:14:40 +1000, in alt.games.wing-commander "blah" <bl...@blah.com> wrote: >"TC" <T...@blacklance.org> wrote in message >news:ujvq4vsmbqku7rodvqbd1lc6jl2138gk2u@4ax.com... >> >No. It's a DOS 6.22 boot disk. The drive I installed Privateer to is a >> >500MB FAT16 partition. The boot disk doesn't see any of the hard drive >> >partitions. >> Hm... well then, that is rather odd, isn't it... > >Possibly DOS will only see it if the FIRST partition is FAT16. >Unfortunately I threw out the set of DOS 6.22 install disks I had. More likely, the partition was set up with the W9x version of FDISK and not the DOS 6.22 one. After looking around a bit, it's been known to set the partition type to values that DOS will recognize as NON-DOS partitions, yet Windows will work with quite happily. To check if this is the case, one just needs to take a look at the partition tables using the DOS 6.2 version of FDISK and see what it says.
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