garygm@leland.Stanford.EDU (Gary Brainin) (04/20/91)
I have a no-name ("IPC") 386 which currently has DOS 3.3 on it.
Feeling constrained by the 35MB limit on my hard drive, I attempted
last night to load DOS 4.01, and was rebuffed. After repartitioning
my hard drive, I ran the select program, and when it got to the point
that it asks you to put in a scratch disk, it told me that my disk was
defective.
I tried this several times, formatting the disk with DOS 4.01
(loaded from the floppy), and switching floppies a couple of times.
Eventually I gave up and re-installed 3.3 in disgust.
One odd side note: when I tried "format a:" from 4.01 it gave me an
invalid parameter error, but "format a: /f:1440" (my a drive is a
1.44M 3.5") seemed to work. "Format b:" and "format c:" worked fine.
I tried RTFM, but it didn't even _imply_ that such a thing could
happen. Any ideas?
-Gary
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