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- From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Accessing old DOS drive C: under new OS/2
- Keywords: access DOS drive
- Message-ID: <1992Nov15.212955.349@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Date: 15 Nov 92 21:29:55 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov14.165257.24624@yenta.alb.nm.us> ben@yenta.alb.nm.us (Ben Klausner) writes:
- >When I installed OS/2, I was fortunate to have extra space on my drive, so I
- >put it in an unused partition. Before that, I had a C: primary, and a D: and
- >a E: in the extended partition.
- >
- >After OS/2 was put in, I found I could access the old D: and E: under OS/2,
- >but not the old C:. The new C: was the new OS/2 partition. The old C: is
- >still intact, and I can boot to it, but then the new OS/2 partition is
- >unavailable.
-
- Sorry. Only one primary partition may be active at a time. You're
- booting into a primary partition, so the other one (DOS C:) can't be
- accessed. The only way around this is to install OS/2 into an
- extended partition. In order to boot from there, however, you'll need
- to install Boot Manager, which will require a re-partition to install
- (I believe).
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