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ALTERNATE: Seeking Old Overlay for Quantum Hard Disk Drive

Hi,

Thanks to everyone who responded to my original post (see below).

ALTERNATE:

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> I have a portable Compaq 386 computer I use for data logging. >It uses a standard size HDD. Before I removed a Quantum 750M >HDD from an old desktop PC, I partitioned it with two partitions, one >520M and the remainder was used for the second partition. Each >partition was formatted and a MSDos 6.2 OS installed. Of course, >the 520M partition is the "active" partition. I removed the HDD and >installed it in the 386 computer. The BIOS cannot "see" the second >partition. I have searched the web for older overlays, but I couldn't find >any. Note: A new overlay will not "run" in this old 386 computer. > > Thanks in advance, Brad > > Before you type your password, credit card number, etc., > be sure there is no active key logger (spyware) in your PC.
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Brad
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Try this. It is suspose to work in dos.

formatting link

You may find some information here also.

formatting link

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Ralph Mowery

Early Quantum drives were supplied with Ontrack overlay software. First, the BIOS has to be able to access the drive. Looks like this is ok if you can read the first partition. Second, the overlay software has to be used to fdisk/format the drive. The overlay rewrites the partition table in RAM on the fly. The version or the os shouldn't matter.

You cannot just stick in a formatted drive and expect to access it via the overlay. Once it's set up with the overlay, you can't just stick it back into another computer and expect it to be accessible. It might, but it might also trash itself and the other disks on the computer. mike

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On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 17:23:02 GMT, snipped-for-privacy@verizon.net (Brad) put finger to keyboard and composed:

A generic disk overlay is available here:

formatting link

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formatting link

====================================================================== Disk Manager for DOS Version 5.22 by Ontrack (1993) ~ 210Kb Download

- Franc Zabkar

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