If I boot with a recovery disk -- and I have several, some that use high memory, some that don't etc. -- and run FDISK, I get the expected screen saying one or more of the hard disks on this system is larger etc.. But no matter whether I enter Y or N the display goes back to the A prompt. In other words FDISK does not run.
If I let the system boot into Windows 98SE which is what it is set up with, it boots and runs just fine -- with all hard disks present and working. I have checked with Norton that all disks are working OK -- full capacity reported etc.
Beats me. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Mystery deepens! Thinking that the FDISK file might be corrupt, I made a recovery disk on the other machine -- same result. I then went to an MS DOS prompt in Windows 98 and ran FDISK /STATUS. The HDs and their partitions were correctly reported. I then made new boot disks and a Windows 98 emergency recovery disk on this machine. When the machine boots into DOS from either of them and I run FDISK I get the same screen that it has detected drives larger than 512Meg etc. but no matter which option is chosen, on hitting ENTER the display goes back to the A prompt. I didn't have a problem (so far as I knew) when I started this, but now I am worried that I would not be able to get to my HDs to FDISK or FORMAT if I needed to. If anyone has any suggestions, please let me know.
If I let the system boot into Windows 98SE which is what it is set up with, it boots and runs just fine -- with all hard disks present and working. I have checked with Norton that all disks are working OK -- full capacity reported etc.
Beats me. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Mystery deepens! Thinking that the FDISK file might be corrupt, I made a recovery disk on the other machine -- same result. I then went to an MS DOS prompt in Windows 98 and ran FDISK /STATUS. The HDs and their partitions were correctly reported. I then made new boot disks and a Windows 98 emergency recovery disk on this machine. When the machine boots into DOS from either of them and I run FDISK I get the same screen that it has detected drives larger than 512Meg etc. but no matter which option is chosen, on hitting ENTER the display goes back to the A prompt. I didn't have a problem (so far as I knew) when I started this, but now I am worried that I would not be able to get to my HDs to FDISK or FORMAT if I needed to. If anyone has any suggestions, please let me know.
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