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"Terry Chace" <spalding@iinet.net.au> wrote in message
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> i did a bit of searching for you Rod
>
> http://www.sysopt.com/articles/upgradeguide/index5.html

        .NET = Not Even True, and URL = Utterly Rancid Location.

        The proof is, as always, in the pudding, as my grandma used to say.

>
> "A serious consideration when adding or upgrading hard drives is the
> operating system, since they do not always support large drives. A quick
> guide to this is:
>
> DOS 6.22 or earlier- limited to 8.4 gig.
> Windows 95A, supports greater than 8.4 gig, but drive must contain at
least
> five partitions.

        Nope, 95A only sees 8.4G.  Strike one.

> Windows 95B (OSR2) supports drives larger than 8.4 gigabytes. OSR2 also
> provides FAT32, which is required to format one large unpartitioned drive.
> Windows 98 supports 17.2 gig, FAT16 & FAT32.

        Strange - Wonder how the Win98 machine I've got at one customer's
site is manhandling that 45G drive then.

        Heh.  Maybe that's why it shuts down DURING A POWER OUTAGE - about
the only thing that causes the system to shut down (it's so I can borrow the
guy's DSL line over the weekend, so I don't have a UPS on it.)

        Maybe you should talk to those of us who are DOING this, instead of
believing all the rumors you read.

        Hell, you could even query Microsoft's knowledge base - they have a
fix for >64G drives for FDISK, and a note that if you exceed 128G, DEFRAG
and SCANDISK will break ...  If it were limited to 17.2G (which is a strange
size anyway - where in HELL did THAT come from?) why would there be a need
for a fix for FDISK for >64G drives?

> Windows NT 3.5 doesn't support greater than 8.4 gig.
> Windows NT 4.0 supports drives larger than 8.4 gig, but only 8.4 gigabytes
> can be seen on the bootable drive (SP 4 should resolve). Only supports
FAT32
> with a 3rd party driver addition.
> Windows NT 5.0 expected to support drives larger than 8.4 gig.
> OS/2 Warp 3 and 4: Some versions support only 3.1 or 4.3 gig. "
>
> please note the 6th line which says "Windows 98 supports 17.2 gig, FAT16 &
> FAT32"

        Which is, as one guy points, "something different than a product for
porcine cleanliness" ...

        RwP