I am the 62yr old father of a son who thinks I can fix anything even after suffering two strokes. Can someone please help me to edit the MHDD.CFG file to enable autodetect e.g. AUTODETECT_ENABLED=TRUE.
I can get as far as seeing the cfg file in C:\Dir but don't know what to input/type to get to the file which I can then edit by changing FALSE to TRUE. I'm sorry to take up anybody's time but after trying for six hours I have failed.
Best regards
Kevin

Can you not open the file with notepad make the changes and save the file ? the .cfg you should be able to right click the file and choose open or open with and choose notepad to edit.

Maybe the problem is elsewhere i.e. using MHDD under Windows (need pure DOS) or simply the drive is UNDETECTABLE because it is BROKEN .... or simply was not selected the right port....

P.S. BEWARE , you are just few clicks away from killing your system drive depending on what you do !! If you feel unsecure or don't know what to do, don't do anything and leave the... problem to someone else. Better safe than sorry.

Yes I would be able to do that, but the cfg file is within the iso and I can't extract it out to edit it. If I could it that way I would probably be okay at making another iso.

I'm sure the drive is mechanically sound. I just accidently wiped it trying to transfer some files across. I get the message " Autodetect is disabled enter MHDD.CFG. I just don't have the skill to get to the cfg file.

The path is cfg/mhdd.cfg but I've tried every combination of that and can't get the .cfg file to open. Basically I need to create another boot up cd with the command to enable autodetect. Failing that I need to edit the .cfg file using MHDD commands (Which is were I am stuck) If someone could tell me the paths to type in so I can edit the cfg file in MHDD that will be great.

I downloaded the MHDD iso file mounted it with magiciso utility then used another program to extract files from the ISO and see whats there. See image below the iso is booting up with Windows98SE and running in DOS mode which is understandable. I don't see the mhdd.cfg file in the dir structure anywhere. Maybe there is a way to add that at the mhdd command prompt ?

Yes you are absolutely right. At the MHDD command prompt if you type in DIR the next tree shows CFG <DIR>. I'm sure it is in that directory, but I can't find (don't know) the next DOS command to open up that directory. The CFG file is made after the first (initial) run of the program. I looked at a forum post from a few years ago how-create-the-mhdd-cfg-file-1870.html and it actually shows the wording of the .cfg file and the one change I need is False to true and bingo

You could run Mhdd from a bootable floppy disk. That way the cfg file would be easy to modify and write back to the floppy.
http://files.hddguru.com/index.php?&dir ... y=Software
mhdd32ver4.6floppy.exe
MHDD 4.6, MS-DOS boot floppy creator

OK why not download the floppy image version of MHDD create the floppy then run MHDD exit then cd\cfg dir then change the config file and re-launch MHDD. It seems the cfg dir is created at first launch. I am getting the idea now your running it from Hirens and the dir goes away each time you exit which changes on the fly as it runs etc.

Exit MHDD. Then at the DOS prompt, type ...

echo AUTODETECT_ENABLED=TRUE >> cfg\mhdd.cfg

This will append the required line to the CFG file. Hopefully this will override the earlier FALSE statement.

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I should add that you can view the CFG file by typing ...

TYPE cfg\mhdd.cfg

You could also create a CFG file from scratch as follows:

COPY CON cfg\mhdd.cfg

Now type the desired command lines. Terminate your keyboard input with Ctrl-Z and hit Enter.

This will copy your keyboard input (the CONsole device) to the specified destination file. Any existing file of the same name will be overwritten.

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