Document 1101
NEC DOS
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Description:

NEC DOS 3.3 PARTITIONS WITH DR DOS 5.0 and 6.0

INSTALL says that "you must first FDISK your hard drive;" When
you go into DR DOS FDISK and try to remove the partition, FDISK
indicates that "This is not a DOS partition."

End users are able to remove the partitions with NEC's FDISK,
then recreate them with DR DOS's FDISK.  DR DOS then installs
fine.  NEC Powermates are shipped with NEC DOS 3.3.  This
version has been HIGHLY modified from normal DOS 3.3.  One of
the changes is that their FDISK utility will create
larger-than-32 MB partitions on the hard drive, however their
method of doing this is NOT compatible with either the Compaq
DOS 3.31 scheme or the MS DOS 4.01 scheme. Removing the
partitions with NEC FDISK is the only solution - this is also
required if the user wishes to install regular MS DOS 4.01.

It is important to note that running FDISK will result in the
loss of all data on the disk. Please have a backup before doing
this procedure.