Hard drive partition

[ferris0804]

I recently created a partion on my hard drive for dos 6.22 and Windows 3.11 On the other partition I have windows98. After I got everything installed everything was working fine for a while except my cd-drives, which I posted a different topic on in Storage Devices. That problem was that the cd-drive were not detected sometimes in Windows 98. But anyway, back to this problem. I have Legend OS boot manager. When I booted up, I I chose to boot the dos 6.22\windows3.11 partition. It said it could not boot the OS. It turns out that the whole partition was wiped out and I lost everything on that partition. I had to reformat the partion and start over. What would have caused this. Please help so I can prevent it from happening again. THANKS!!

[Ghost_Hacker]

Was the partition that DOS/win3.11 on bigger than 7GB?

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[Paleo Pete]

Make that 2GB, DOS/win3.x must be run in FAT 16, which does not recognize partitions larger than 2GB.

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[ferris0804]

it is a fat 16 partition and it is 1.99Gig

[Ghost_Hacker]

I'll assume that the Windows98 partition is the active one and that Windows98 was installed before you created the DOS/3.11 partion. Correct?
If that's true then I would blame the Lengend boot manager. This boot manager creats a "bm" file which holds your partition information. It does not contain the old "fdisk-created" partition table.(The "old" table can be restored by using fdisk/MBR.)I think when you ran setup to create the bm file it lost or you did not add the second DOS/3.11 partition to the table. Since you have recreated the partition it's to late to run fdisk with the MBR option. But according to the Legend documentation that is the recommend procedure if the program fails to perform as expected.


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[This message has been edited by Ghost_Hacker (edited 02-23-2001).]

[ferris0804]

Here is exactly the way I did it.
I started fresh by wiping out the whole hard drive. I then created a 17 gig fat32 partition for windows 98. But before I installed windows 98 I then created a 2 gig fat16 partition for dos 6.22/windows 3.11 I then install dos 6.22 on the fat16 partition. Then I installed windows 3.11 on the same partition. Then I made the other partition active and installed windows98. All partitions were managed by fdisk, no third party. After I got windows98 setup I downloaded the legend boot manager and installed that. I check after that to make sure both booted fine and they did. But then after a couple boots, poof the fat 16 partition was still there, but it was supposedly not formated and nothing I installed was there. It was all gone. I know I formated it because dos 6.22 did it for me. Everything was working for a while. I hope I got all the info you need. Thanks once again