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Subject: Re: New harddrive, partitions, tablebases & Linux

Author: Vincent Lejeune

Date: 14:33:55 01/17/00

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On January 17, 2000 at 14:16:57, Pete Galati wrote:

>On January 17, 2000 at 12:31:59, Vincent Lejeune wrote:
>
>>On January 17, 2000 at 10:30:51, Pete Galati wrote:
>>
>>>I'm planning to go out and get a new harddrive for my computer today or tuesday,
>>>I expect to get a Western Digital 20.? GB drive.
>>>
>>>With the Windows 95 that I have now I hear that I'll be restricted to 2 GB
>>>partitions.
>>
>>Windows allows partition >2Go since win95 OSR2 (win95 osr2.1 and win98) because
>>the introduction of the FAT32 (the FAT16 maximum size was 2^16*32 Ko =2Go)
>
>Thanks, I'll have to take a look later this week, OfficeMax didn't have the HD I
>wanted in the store so I'll have to return at the end of the week, oh well.
>
>By "2Go" I'm assuming that you mean 2 gigabytes?  I've never seen "Go" before.

oups , yes 2 GigaByte , sorry I used the french abbreviation of the french word
'GigaOctect'

>
>I was told that 2Gb was the maximum I could do unless I upgraded to Win 98, and
>I don't want to do that.

Check the version of your windows95 if you have osr2 or osr2.1 it will support
FAT 32 and partition above 2Gigabyte

Bests regards
Vincent

>
>Pete



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