Re: Can Windows 3.0 handle 80Meg HD partition?

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From: Wolfgang Strobl
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 1990 20:02

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owenc@hpindwa.cup.hp.com (Owen Cheung) writes:

>I have heard that Windows 3.0 and DOS 4.0 cannot handle harddisk partition
>of greater than 80Meg.  Is that true? Any work around?

No, it's not true. I'm using Windows 3, DOS 4.0 and a 120 MByte partition
at home and most people in my group use a similar combination with one
or more partitions between 32 and 200 MByte for some time now and 
without disk related problems. 

Where did you hear this? It is a known problem that Windows 3 does not
like some third party partitioning programs which allow partitions
greater than 32 MB on DOS versions below 4.0. The usual workaround is
to upgrade to DOS 4.0. The limit of "80 MByte" seems a bit strange
to me.

Wolfgang Strobl
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From: strobl@gmdzi.gmd.de (Wolfgang Strobl)
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Subject: Re: Can Windows 3.0 handle 80Meg HD partition?
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