MS DOS Compatibility Mode File System

[Liquid28]

Help...I recently upgraded my system with a motherboard and a second hard drive.
The motherboard is a SOYO 6BA+IV, and the hard drive is a 20.5Gig Western Digital. I'm running Windows 98 with a 433 Celeron. Now my broblem is I keep getting in properties that "Drive 'D' (and all its partitions) is running in MS DOS Compatibility Mode File System. So as you may have guessed I am not getting the DMA66 dream I thought I would. To make a long story short I called the Motherboard people, Western digital, and Microsoft, and everybodides blaming each other....can someone help...I have'nt been working on computers that long and its killing me...

[CrasHdEfeCT]

The problem is that your computer is using REAL MODE, which means that it is switching off drivers (16 to 32 then 16 etc...) If drive D is your CDROM, then, you might have to find updates for the driver, or the for partitions you have, the same thing, you need 32BIT drivers, so it won't use real mode to switch from 32 to 16, which really decreases the performance, some programs won't even run on real mode...

[OuTpaTienT]

Use Regedit to open the registry. Do a search for "NOIDE", and delete it. Problem solved. (hopefully).

[CrasHdEfeCT]

But you should still update your drivers, all the time!!! Yea, try REGEDIT, nice advice.

[Steve R Jones]

Troubleshooting MS-DOS Compatibility Mode on Hard Disks
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q130/1/79.asp?LNG=ENG&SA=ALLKB

[CMonster]

If you only got this error after upgrading to a new motherboard then it usually indicates that a chipset driver for the motherboard resources needs to be updated. Did you install any drivers/patches that came with the motherboard?

Are there any yellow exclaimation marks in your Device Manager?



[This message has been edited by CMonster (edited 02-05-2000).]