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Article #3148Re: The 33 MByte limit (was: Trouble installing DOS 4.01)
From: Leonard Erickson
Date: Fri, 17 May 1991 00:37
Date: Fri, 17 May 1991 00:37
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Pick up a copy of Compaq MS-DOS 3.31 (or any other 3.31). It supports large partitions. And Utilities support it. If it doesn't do it the same as 4.x it is apparently at least compatible. In any case, I'm running a 40 meg drive with one partition at home (the boot drive is a 40 meg with two partitions, but only because most XT controllers can't boot from a BIGDOS partition). At work, we set have numerous machines with 40, 80, even 120 meg partitions. And we haven't had any trouble with software not liking them. Not even things like Norton uitlities, various disk optimizers, etc. So we have 3.3x *and* we have large partitions. -- Leonard Erickson leonard@qiclab.uucp personal: CIS: [70465,203] 70465.203@compuserve.com business: CIS: [76376,1107] 76376.1107@compuserve.com
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