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- From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Where is my DOS C: partition
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.170623.13646@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Date: 18 Aug 92 17:06:23 GMT
- References: <1992Aug15.003446.9795@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1992Aug18.131848.11474@unlinfo.unl.edu>
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- In article <1992Aug18.131848.11474@unlinfo.unl.edu> vandevek@cse.unl.edu (James Vandevegt) writes:
- >wrp@cyclops.micr.Virginia.EDU (Bill Pearson) writes:
- >> I would like to know what to do to have OS/2 recognize both
- >>my DOS C: and D: partitions (although they need not keep those names),
- >>so that when I run OS/2, I have three partitions.
- >
- >Remember, Only one of your many primary partitions on your hard drive
- >may be active at any one time. Inactive partitions can *NOT* be
- >accesses. Logical partitions are accessable by any active partition.
- >To get OS/2 shut down and boot up DOS 5, you have to have the boot
- >manager installed. If not, booting off a floppy and using FDISK from
- >DOS 5 on the floppy might do the trick. To have access to all files
- >all the time, you have to use the dual boot feature where both
- >operating systems reside on the same primary boot partition and
- >you can't use the high performance file system 'cause it's incompatible
- >with DOS.
-
- However, you can install OS/2 to a logical drive in the extended
- partition, and it will boot from there (using boot manager). You can
- format this logical drive as FAT or HPFS. Since it is a logical
- drive, your C: drive remains the primary partition, and is always
- visible. DOS will be able to read the logical drive(s) if they're
- formatted as FAT.
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