Re: Formatting/partitioning hard disks (or beating the 32MB barrier)

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From: John Tevik
Date: Thu, 30 May 1991 03:12

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In article <1991May23.231748.7158@cbnewse.att.com> langev@cbnewse.att.com (steve.j.langevin) writes:
>I just purchased DR DOS 5.0 and installed it on my hard disk.
>I would like to redo my 80MB hard disk into a single partition.
>I have Disk Manager 4.0 and it will only allow bootable partitions
>of 32MB or less.  Is there a newer version that will let me do
>an 80MB bootable partition?  What other "disk manager" type
>programs are out there?  Which is best?  Thanks

DR DOS 5.0 has indigenous support for large (>32M) disk partitions.
You'll need to start with the DR DOS fdisk utility to remove any existing
partitions (backup first) and create a single bootable 80M partition
which you can then format.  You will no longer need Disk Manager.

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