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

Author: Vincent Lejeune

Date: 03:44:12 01/18/00

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On January 18, 2000 at 03:59:31, Pete Galati wrote:

>On January 17, 2000 at 17:33:55, Vincent Lejeune wrote:
>
>>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
>
>I can't seem to dig up that info, it must be hidden somewhere, but when I run
>"ver" and in a couple other places it indicates that I have version 4.00.950
>
>Pete

Control Panel/system, General tab
If it's write OSR 2.x there you have it else I doesn't support FAT32
i'm 90% sure , i haven't longer win95 here to test , sorry

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