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Win98, booting the Sandisk??
Cant boot the sandisk

New MessageWin98, booting the Sandisk?? (modified 0 times) cheaphack
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I have two V5 Iopeners with the Badflash.com V5 BIOS.

I have tried and tried and cant figure this out.... I have:
*deleted the 4 Sandisk partitions
*created a single new partition,
*formatted and added system files to the partition
*fdisk /mbr the partition
*set the partition active

It still will not boot. I have tried C only, D,A,SCSI, etc, in BIOS). I have tried setting NONE to device C drive (in BIOS).

Any ideas how I can boot the sandisk? Thanks

cheaphack

01-07-2001 07:37:24

New MessageRE:Win98, booting the Sandisk?? (modified 0 times) mp3boombox
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Using regular DOS software you CAN'T make the sandisk bootable. Reason why is because its not set active. You need to use some software called randal partition something like that. its posted on the bbs. BUT when you set the sandisk active you can boot off it. I'v just got a rescue disk loaded onto my sandisk. with basicly fdisk, format, ect.. laplink and a few other things plus most of my windows drivers. Just saves me time.

You can copy all the system files to the sandisk you want till the IO is blue in the screen ;) ok bad joke. But with out the drive being set active it WILL not boot.

01-07-2001 13:54:45

New MessageRE:Win98, booting the Sandisk?? (modified 0 times) ckbone
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You can make it active (bootable) using practically any version of Partition Magic. I thought everyone had a copy of this essential program.
01-07-2001 17:39:28

New MessageRE:Win98, booting the Sandisk?? (modified 0 times) cheaphack
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The partition is set active. This is how I created it:

1) I deleted the old partitions, created the new partition with Partition Magic.
2) Then, I rebooted to command line and formatted and fdisk /mbr from command line.
3) Then, I went back into partition magic and set the partition active.
4)When I look at the partition in DOS, it is a primary dos partition. When I look at it in Partition Magic (V4, btw), the partition is set active.

Still, it hangs in BIOS and does not boot the partition. I have tried(with just the Sandisk in) C Only, D,A,SCSI. I have also tried D,A,SCSI with the C Drive attached, and it boots the C drive.

I did notice that the File system shows up as "FAT12". What is FAT12?

01-07-2001 17:50:28

New MessageRE:Win98, booting the Sandisk?? (modified 0 times) ckbone
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Mine shows up as Fat12 also....I think it has to do with the physical make-up of the san-disk. It's treated as a Fat16. The fdisk /mbr only restores the master boot record. The command to add the system files is fdisk /s. You did this?
01-07-2001 19:37:37

New MessageRE:Win98, booting the Sandisk?? (modified 0 times) StormFlare
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FAT12 is actually the type of partition that floppy disks use. Depending on your drive size, FDISK or other programs will choose a FAT partition that is appropriate.
01-07-2001 20:56:11

New MessageRE:Win98, booting the Sandisk?? (modified 0 times) cyrixone
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I had this problem with a V5 as well... I finally managed to make it work properly by dolly'ing the old v2 sandisk image to the sandisk, then doing the usual fdisk, set active, format /s, etc. Whatever is wrong with the sandisk's MBR(?) gets fixed by this... You can get dolly and the v2 image from l:iopener p:iopener @ fr33dr1v3.com (un-1337 first, ex: 3 = e, 1 = i)
01-07-2001 22:23:45

New MessageRE:Win98, booting the Sandisk?? (modified 0 times) cheaphack
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cyrixone: I will try the dolly trick to restore an old image and see if it boots. If not, I'll try a jailbait image (I actually do software development in U*IX systems in my real life).

ckbone: Yes, I put the system files there. I can cd to the drive and see them (msdos.sys, io.sys, etc)

01-08-2001 05:26:48

New MessageRE:Win98, booting the Sandisk?? (modified 0 times) YouBecha
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I had to use the ranish partitioner a few times on the sandisk to get it the way I wanted. (somewhere on this bbs is the link)

Because of the small size vs sector and block sizes, I kept ending up with two partitions on the sandisk, one about a meg and a half, and the other about 14 megs.

The trouble was I couldn't make the larger partition primary (bootable), so I kept erasing and redoing until it allowed the larger partition to be primary, then I installed all the drivers, and other dos stuff.

Now I can boot it if in bios I boot from D...

There is still a second tiny partition on the sandisk, but I ignore it.

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01-08-2001 09:14:27

New MessageRE:Win98, booting the Sandisk?? (modified 0 times) cheaphack
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I was able to get the sandisk to boot by dolly'ing the jailbait image to the sandisk. Now if I could just figure out where my "ls" command went, I'd be in good shape..
01-10-2001 21:28:26

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