Hi chaps
I didnt have a chance to try all the suggestions early this morning.
When I turn on the computer, it says the following;
Non system disk or disk eroor , replace and press any key when ready etc....
Put in my dos 6.22 boot disk which I got from the link provided here
Loaded up dos and tried the following:
fdisk
This confirmed that the hard drive was active however it was listing it as 127mb rather than 503mb
These are the details it lists:
Partition C:1
Status: A
PRI DOS
503MB
FAT 16
100% usage
I also typed in fdisk/mbr
In my BIOS, I have to set the hard drive type. On the 40mb one (hard drive I am replacing), it is type 17. On this one (504mb), googling it, I believed it was type 42. (maybe this is the issue). I can try each one until I get it right?
I only thought about the above issue after I thought maybe the HDD has error so I will format it.....
When I formatted it, it said the following:
Checking existing disk format
Existing disk format differs from that specified
Proceed (Y/N)
I left it formatted for the time being
Do I need to do the FDISK/MBR command before installing dos?
Should I try all the different hard drive types in BIOS and then use FDISK until the Hard drive size matches? (and then format the hard drive?)
Thanks for everyones help
I want to get the 540mb HDD working without using drive overlay
But I also have a 80GB ATA hard drive. The two smaller ones are AT (40mb) and (504mb). However the 80GB one is ATA - would this work withour any mods (apart from drive overlay).