DOS does not see virtual harddrive

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Bartm85
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DOS does not see virtual harddrive

Post by Bartm85 »

I'm trying to have a Windows 98 virtual machine. When I start the VM with a mounted DOS boot disk, the machine does not recognize the C: drive, only A: (mounted floppy) and D: (mounted cd with win98 install disc). I tried several DOS boot disks as well as several settings for the virtual machine. Can anyone help please?
Thanks in advance,

Bart
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Post by ghr »

First fdisk and format your new harddrive (takes two boots)....
sidney
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install DOS 6.0 format c:\ not recognized

Post by sidney »

I saw your reply
ghr wrote:First fdisk and format your new harddrive (takes two boots)....
and would like to so, but do not know how to do it without having installed DOS before.

Can you please help me?

Thanks
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Post by Sasquatch »

Please consult Google for this. If you boot with a default Win98 boot disk, you will have fdisk.
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