Brian Kraut wrote:

> I have been trying for a week on a 13G Maxtor and a 15G Western
> Digital drive to set them up as 95/NT dual boot machines.  When I do
> it on a 3.5G drive everthing works fine.  On the big drives 95
> installs fine, but after NT reboots for the first time on installation
> I get a BSD and an INACCESIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE message.

  Did no-one else twig to it?  I went through this process last
Christmas/ January *and* posted to the list.  Sure, it wasn't the exact
symptoms you mention, but it was very similar (I wanted to dual boot Win
and Linux).  And it was a 15 Gb drive.  And (try this one!) it *would*
boot if the small drive were present as slave.

  Older BIOS choke at 8 Gb.  Windows 95 doesn't, meaning that if you can
ever get Win to boot, it will behave as if there was nothing wrong with
the drive whatsoever, and Dosbox sees it perfectly.  DOS however can't
find half the disk - and it's not necessarily the high cylinders either.

  Get a *new* BIOS or motherboard.  I agonised over this stupid problem,
for a month (on and off) but that was the answer.  Instant harmony
(Well, OK, not complete, it *is* Windoze after all, the thing still
crashes frequently and creatively but...  Linux not yet installed BTW).

Also, Gennette Bruce wrote:

> If you used fdisk from Win95B or Win98 you *MAY* have turned on large
> disk support which is a misnomer - support it ain't - avoid it.

  Sorry OM, he is talking about FIFTEEN GIGABYTE drives.  You *can't*
NOT use FAT32.  It just isn't meaningful.  But, that said, you don't put
all your eggs in one (or two) partitions either.  Probably not even on
Linux.
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  Cheers,
        Paul B.