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Article #10809Re: Hard disk question
From: John Gordon
Date: Tue, 04 Jun 1991 21:28
Date: Tue, 04 Jun 1991 21:28
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CONS.ELF@AIDA.CSD.UU.SE (Ake Eldberg) writes:
>Hi everyone.
>I recently bought an IBM 386SX with a 40 megabyte hard disk.
>Now, people are telling me that the PC cannot handle more
>than 32 MB of hard disk space. That would mean that there are
>8 MB on my hard disk which are just sitting there, unused.
>
>Others have said that MS Windows can use those extra MB's
>as a virtual memory, but I don't know how to do that.
>
>Is thare anybody who can explain?
Yes. If you are using a version of DOS of 3.3 or below, each drive
can only be 32 megs. To use your 40-meg disk, you would put drive C as
32 megs, and a drive D as 8 megs. Use FDISK to do this. (Drive D is
a logical drive.) If you are using DOS 4.0 or above, you can have as
large a drive as you want.
---
John Gordon
Internet: gordon@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu #include <disclaimer.h>
gordon@cerl.cecer.army.mil #include <clever_saying.h>
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