🚀 go-pugleaf

I don't know if this is the correct place to post this, but here it goes:

Last night I tried upgrading my IMS 286 machine (Phoenix BIOS 3.x, and DOS 
3.3) with a rip roaring 40 meg HD partitioned into 2 separate drives (due
to DOS 3.3) to DOS 5.0.  Of course, as in anything I do with my machine I 
had problems.

First, after backing up my drive(s) I tried to simply upgrade to DOS 5.0
from DOS 3.3.  I got an error which stated that I had an incompatabile
hard drive please refer to section 2.4 on disk 3 (for 3.5" floppies).

Section 2.4 said:

       If you are using DOS 3.x on a system that has a Disk Manager 
       partition greater than 512MB, contact Ontrack Computer Systems
       to get an upgraded version of Disk Manager and instructions for
       making the partition compatabile with MS-DOS 5.0.  Otherwise,
       do the following:
          1.  Back up your current DMDRVR.BIN and XBIOS.OVL device
              drivers.
          2.  Replace the DMDRVR.BIN and XBIOS.OVL files by using
              the EXPAND command to expand and copy the DMDRVR.BI_
              and XBIOS.OV_ files from Disk 6 for 5.25" disks or 
              from Disk 3 of 3.5" disks.
          3.  Type the following:
                   setup /u

(I don't have an XBIOS.OVL device, but I did back up the DMDRVR.BIN).

I did this, and still had the same problem.  So I figured, Why not simply
format the harddisk and start from scratch?   I deleted the primary DOS
partition, created a new primary DOS partition using the maximum size
possible (which I assumed was the entire 40 meg disk) and formatted the 
disk.  

I installed DOS 4.01 onto the vacated disk and tried to upgrade to DOS
5.0 (all I have is the upgrade to 5.0).  I still got the same problem.
(Same error message!)

I figured, that I could reload all my applications software (from DOS 
3.3 days) and then upgrade to 5.0 when I got my problems figured out.  
But to add insult to injury, I found that there wasn't enough space on my 
HD to reinstall my software.  I assume that all of the HD wasn't formatted
as I had assumed in the beginning.

HELP!!!!!!!!

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