Hi Michael, > > - C: was accessible thanks > > to the BIOS driver anyway :-p.
> Yes. > > If so, why did it become inaccessible when > > you loaded the DOS USB driver?? > I don`t think it would happen with a normal harddisk. Well you loaded a driver which created a new int13 gateway to the SAME drive, which is a very bad idea in the first place... You should probably be glad you lost access to "USB BIOS disk is C:" at the moment when you loaded the driver which says "DOS USB disk is D:" because otherwise C: and D: would share the same physical drive and partition. > > Did you try without EMM386? > No. Would be a good idea :-) > 4. loosing connection to C:\ > 5. removing letter C:\ (because no longer accessible) > 6. moving D:\ to C:\ You can do something like ASSIGN C=D which makes all files on D: visible as C: and all things on your original C: invisible... Using ASSIGN does not have the bad side effects I mentioned above: Only if you have 2 *lowlevel* ways to access the same physical partition you get troubles ;-). After using ASSIGN, your inaccessible C: is no longer visible and your new way to access the drive as D: is also visible as C:, so you now have two drive letters for the same drive... Still you can have a problem: If you have written to C: before you loaded the DOS driver, then the writes may be aborted early at the moment when BIOS access is lost. Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
