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Solve : Access to HDD after booting from floppy??

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I am trying to set up an OLD 486 Acer pc for some equally old DOS based games. I thought I had enough patience to wipe all the dust, and then this came out almost inmediately: Just after getting the A: prompt, my first impulse was to type C: and all I get is a "Invalid Drive Specification" message. Isn't it supposed that the BIOS should "build" the required paths so that the operating system has access to this drive? What MUST be there in the boot FLOPPY disk to make sure I will be ABLE to change the path to the hard drive after booting from floppy?

:-?Check the BIOS if the HD is known.
If yes
Start Fdisk and check the Partitions.
(Delete them if there are some).
Then make Partition(s) with Fdisk and format it.

hope it helps
uli



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