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In article: <817316182snz@jasper.demon.co.uk>  Mike Tomlinson 
<Mike@jasper.demon.co.uk> writes:
> 
> In article <574554223wnr@mahame.demon.co.uk>
>            John@mahame.demon.co.uk "John Hamilton" writes:
> 
[snip]

> Create a small partition at the beginning of the disk, a couple of
> cylinders long, then make the rest of the disk into an extended
> partition. Make this large partition active (this will only work with
> DOS 6 and above, IIRC.)
> 
[snip]

Thanks for the reply.

Just tried this;  but I am unable to make the EXTended DOS partion active with DOS 
6.22.  I get the following message:

"Partition selected (2) is not startable, active partition not changed."

It looks like only the PRImary partition can be made active.

Let me know otherwise, or if I am missing something.

I accept and understand the reasoning in doing the above, but I still can't believe 
that I have 3 disks all having bad 'track zero sector zero', at the same time.  All 
the disks check fine with Scandisk, Disk Doctor and other utilities.  I'm sure the 
problem is elsewhere.


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