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- Table of Errors:
-
- Most of these will prevent the Harddisk from working correctly under DOS, so
- it's not likely that you ever get these errors.
-
- Invalid Rootsector Signature
- The last two bytes of the rootsector must be 55 AA (hex)
- More than one bootable Partition
- In the partition table there should only be one partition marked bootable
- You can override this message with the -omb switch
- Invalid bootable-flag
- The bootable flag in the partition table should be 80h or 0
- You can override this message with the -obf switch
- Invalid Start Sector
- The start sector number of the partition is either 0 or greater than
- the number of sectors per track
- Invalid End Sector
- The end sector number of the partition is either 0 or greater than
- the number of sectors per track
- Invalid Start Head
- The number of the start head of the partition is greater than the total
- number of heads of the drive - 1
- Invalid End Head
- The number of the end head of the partition is greater than the total
- number of heads of the drive - 1
- Partition Table Corrupt - start
- The start sector (head/cylinder/sector) does not match the absolute start
- sector
- Partition Table Corrupt - end
- The end sector (head/cylinder/sector) does not match the absolute start
- sector + the number of sectors
- Overlapping Partitions
- The partition table contains overlapping partitions
- Invalid Jump Instruction in Bootsector
- The first three bytes of the bootsector must be a 3-byte jump (E9 xx xx)
- or a 2-byte jump (EB xx 90). Perhaps the partition is not yet formatted.
- FIPS can only split DOS-formatted partitions.
- Invalid Bootsector
- The last two bytes of the bootsector must be 55 AA (hex)
- Can't handle number of Bytes per Sector
- The number of bytes per sector must be 512
- Number of Sectors per Cluster must be a power of 2
- Only 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64 or 128 are allowed
- Partition must have 2 FATs
- Every DOS partition has 2 copies of the FAT
- Number of Rootdir entries must be multiple of 16
- One sector of the rootdirectory contains 16 entries
- You can override this message with the -ore switch
- Number of Rootdir entries must not be zero
- Sounds reasonable, doesn't it?
- Wrong Media Descriptor Byte in Bootsector
- The Media Descriptor Byte in the Bootsector should be F8 (hex)
- You can override this message with the -omd switch
- FAT too large
- FAT has more than 256 sectors - useless, since 2 bytes * 64K entries =
- 128K = 256 * 512 bytes. If you can access the drive, do not attempt to
- change this.
- You can override this message with the -olf switch
- FAT too small
- The partition has more clusters than the FAT can handle
- You can override this message with the -osf switch
- Number of hidden sectors incorrect
- The number of hidden sectors in the bootsector must match the number
- of the start sector in the partition table
- 12-bit FAT not supported
- FIPS can't split partitions with a 12-bit FAT
- Number of sectors (short) must be zero
- For partitions with more than 65536 sectors (BIGDOS) the number of sectors
- (short) must be zero
- Number of sectors (short) does not match Partition Info
- The number of sectors in the partition table must match the number of
- sectors in the bootsector
- Number of Sectors (long) does not match Partition Info
- The number of sectors in the partition table must match the number of
- sectors in the bootsector
-
- Invalid Drive number
- Only the numbers 128 - 255 are valid drive numbers
- Invalid Partition number
- Only the numbers 1 - 4 are valid partition numbers
-
- Error reading FAT 1
- Read error - bad sector
- Error reading FAT 2
- Read error - bad sector
-
- FAT copies differ
- The two copies of the FAT differ - use CHKDSK
- Wrong Media Descriptor Byte in FAT
- The first byte of each FAT is the Media Descriptor - it should be F8h
- You can override this message with the -omd switch
- New Partition not empty
- The New Partition must be completely empty
-
- Too many drives found
- FIPS can handle up to 9 drives - that should be enough for most PCs :-)
- No Compatible Harddisk found
- Hey, where is your drive? Perhaps your Harddisk is not int 13h compatible.
- No valid partition found
- All partitions in the partition table are empty
- No free partition
- All four partitions are in use
-
- Error reading Drive Geometry
- Interrupt 13h 08h returned an error code
- Drive Initialization Failure
- Interrupt 13h 00h returned an error code
- Error reading Root Sector
- Read error - bad sector, wrong drive number or incompatible harddrive
- Can't split extended Partitions
- FIPS can not yet split extended DOS partitions
- Invalid Partition selected
- The partition selected with the -p switch is empty
- Unknown Filesystem
- Only DOS partitions can be split (System Indicator Byte must be 4 or 6)
- Error reading Boot Sector
- Read error - bad sector
- Partition too small - can't split
- If the partition has only slightly more than 4085 clusters, it can't be
- split any further without rewriting the FAT to 12 bit.
- Last Cylinder is not free
- Since the new partition is created at the end of the old one and
- contains at least one cylinder, the partition can not be split if
- not at least the very last cylinder is completely free.
- Probably there is a hidden file like 'image.idx' or 'mirorsav.fil'
- in the last cylinder - see the doc.
- Invalid new start cylinder
- The start cylinder chosen with the -c switch is not valid
- Error writing Root Sector
- Write error - perhaps the disk is write protected?
- Error writing Boot Sector
- Write error :-( - this will hopefully never happen ...
-
- Too many save files on disk
- There can only be ten save files on one floppy disk (rootboot.000 to
- rootboot.009). Delete some or use another floppy disk.
- Can't open file
- FIPS tried to write the file rootboot.00? to drive A: but an error occured
- Try using another floppy disk
- Error writing file
- FIPS tried to write the file rootboot.00? to drive A: but an error occured
- Try using another floppy disk
- Error closing file
- FIPS tried to write the file rootboot.00? to drive A: but an error occured
- Try using another floppy disk
-
-
- Warnings:
-
- These will not cause FIPS to exit, since they are not really errors. If you
- have the possibility to correct the problem, do it; if not, this will not
- affect DOS, so you should be safe.
-
- Invalid Partition entry
- The partition entry contains data, but the system indicator is 0 (empty).
- Attention: FIPS will possibly overwrite this entry. Make sure this is no
- valid Partition (temporarily disabled etc.)
- Partition does not end on Cylinder boundary
- All partitions should end on a cylinder boundary
- Partition does not begin on Cylinder boundary
- Normally, all partitions except the first one should begin on head 0,
- sector 1 of a cylinder. This is not required by DOS, however.
- Free Space between Partitions
- There is free space on the harddisk that is not covered by a partition
- Number of reserved sectors should be 1
- The bootsector uses only 1 sector, so the number of reserved sector
- is usually 1. If you can access your drive, do not attempt to change this.
- Sectors per track incorrect
- The number of sectors per track in the bootsector does not match the actual
- drive geometry reported by the BIOS
- Number of drive heads incorrect
- The number of drive heads in the bootsector does not match the actual
- drive geometry reported by the BIOS
- Wrong System Indicator Byte
- For BIGDOS Partitions the System Indicator Byte should be 6; for DOS16
- Partitions it should be 4
- Wrong Signature
- Partitions with 32-bit sector numbers (since DOS 4.0+) have an 'extended
- Bios Parameter Block' in the bootsector, its signature byte is 29h. This
- is however totally ignored by DOS.
- Drive number in bootsector does not match actual drivenumber
- The drive number in the bootsector does not match the drive number by which
- the drive is accessed
- Wrong FAT entries 1 & 2
- A 16-bit FAT should start with F8 FF FF FF
- Can't open debugfile
- The debugfile is created in the current directory - make sure it is
- writable
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