How to utilize up to 8 Gb disk space for DR-DOS?
On modern system with harddisks >8GB you often have got the problem that you must use the new 0Fh extended partition (LBA) instead of the old sort 05h extended partition (CHS). DR-DOS 7.03 won’t accept this new type 0Fh and won’t have access to the data. A solution would be to use the old 05h partition type but then you would have access to 8 GB under DR DOS but you would be limited to these 8 GB under Windows 9x/NT, too. The only “real” solution would be to create two extended partitions, first one with DR DOS FDISK (all the space above the primary partition but below the 8 GB) with the C5h type (“DR DOS secured”). MS DOS won’t be able to recognize this partition. Afterwards, you must create another extended partition with the rest of the space for MS DOS which won’t be recognized by DR DOS using FDISK of MS DOS 7.10 or higher with the 0Fh type (not readable for DR DOS).
