Microsoft KB Archive/75356

= AT Gigafile Disk Driver Does Not Work with MS-DOS 5.0 =

Article ID: 75356

Article Last Modified on 11/16/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft MS-DOS 5.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft MS-DOS 5.0a

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This article was previously published under Q75356



SYMPTOMS
You are using an AT Gigafile disk driver manufactured by Core Technology on your MS-DOS 5.0 system, and your system stops responding (hangs).



CAUSE
According to Core Technology, the AT Gigafile disk driver does not work with MS-DOS version 5.0.

The AT Gigafile disk driver provides disk partitioning to manipulate the 32 MB partition limitation under versions of MS-DOS earlier than version 4.01. This utility is very similar to the Disk Manager and Speed Store disk-partitioning software.

If the Gigafile disk driver is used, the following line is found in CONFIG.SYS:   device=[drive:][path]GIGAAT.SYS The system stops (hangs) if this line is present when MS-DOS 5.0 is used.



WORKAROUND

 * 1) Back up your hard drive.
 * 2) Install MS-DOS 5.0 to floppy disks (that is, use &quot;setup/f&quot;).
 * 3) Use FDISK from the MS-DOS 5.0 Support disk (created during setup to floppy).
 * 4) Delete old non-DOS partition information.
 * 5) Create a new MS-DOS partition.
 * 6) Format and Restore your hard drive.

Additional query words: 5.00 3rdparty

Keywords: KB75356

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