Creating a boot disk to DOS that will see my SATA drives - Using XP PRO

[Tim]

OK I stuffed up - I admit it <sigh>
Been using Norton goback 4 for some time, and unlike many had no problems.
It was "protecting" both my SATA 160gb drives ( Multiple partitions on
each).
the slave/secondary drive dies and had to be replaced. I DID disable (but
not uninstall) Goback before I installed the new drive.
Restarted without a problem.
NOT surprisingly, the new drive is NOT protected by Goback now. Decided to
uninstall and reinstall goback - CAN'T uninstall goback.!
After lengthy Symantec review :-( .......
Need access to dos boot environment (16bit).
So I Created a boot disk from XP pro.
booted into it(DOS) - no problems -BUT it doesn't see my Hard drives at all.
I assume there are some SATA type drivers needed that the create boot disk
routine has not included.
Any pointers on where I go from here.
All I want is a DOS boot disk that will see my drives.....

Thanks
Tack

 

[Tim]

OK I stuffed up - I admit it <sigh>
Been using Norton goback 4 for some time, and unlike many had no problems.
It was "protecting" both my SATA 160gb drives ( Multiple partitions on
each).
the slave/secondary drive dies and had to be replaced. I DID disable (but
not uninstall) Goback before I installed the new drive.
Restarted without a problem.
NOT surprisingly, the new drive is NOT protected by Goback now. Decided to
uninstall and reinstall goback - CAN'T uninstall goback.!
After lengthy Symantec review :-( .......
Need access to dos boot environment (16bit).
So I Created a boot disk from XP pro.
booted into it(DOS) - no problems -BUT it doesn't see my Hard drives at
all.
I assume there are some SATA type drivers needed that the create boot disk
routine has not included.
Any pointers on where I go from here.
All I want is a DOS boot disk that will see my drives.....

Thanks
Tack

Should also add..
Using Dell 8400 with native (?) sata control..... on board controllers at
least
NO raid configuration....

 

[Guest]

Not sure but, I think you need NTDOS try downloading it at bootdisc.com
if the format is NTFS regular dos won't see it. I have no idea how this
works for SATA drives.

 

[Andy]

If "see my drives" means being able to access NTFS partitions, you
need to use something like NTFSDOS or some version of linux that can
access NTFS.