Author: Pete Galati
Date: 16:04:17 03/07/00
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On March 04, 2000 at 12:42:54, Pete Galati wrote: >I have a new 15.3Gb harddrive now, but I have Windows 95, problem being that it >has dual booting and it's the older version that only uses FAT16 partitions, so >because they can only be used up till a certain sector of the HD, there's whole >big areas of my new HD that will be unusable. > >So I've been avoiding upgrading to Win98 because I'm told that I would no longer >be able to dual boot into the old Dos 6.22, but now doing the upgrade would >allow me to use FAT32 partitions so I could use the whole HD. > >Are there any reasons why I shouldn't do the upgrade? Does anyone know id Linux >can be installed in a FAT32 partition, and can I install a Linux partition >inside a FAT32 partition? > >Thanks > >Pete Thanks James, Pete & Laurence for reponding to my question. I was not able to respond at all because shortly after posting my question, my tech friend who'd been giving up time on saturdays (and during great wheather too!) to try to work out my harddrive problems, gave up and took my computer back to the shop with her, and installed Win98 so and a new seedy-rom, and a few misc things like a Promise card to fix the old bios. So anyhow, what I have at the moment is 2 FAT16 partitions to allow me to dual boot back to old Dos6.22, and a big fat FAT32 partition. Amazingly enough, as little as I know about computers, my computer ends up being more of a pain to upgrade than the average business' upgrades are. Just an odd note, the File Manager thinks the large FAT32 partition is only 2GB, but the Explorer can see it just fine. Sorry for not responding earlier. Thanks. Pete
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