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

Author: Pete Galati

Date: 07:41:58 01/18/00

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On January 18, 2000 at 06:44:12, Vincent Lejeune wrote:

>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
>
>Anyone to watch at this ?

Going by "Control Panel/system, General tab" then I I guess that I don't have
it, that's also one of the areas where I also saw "4.00.950" so I guess I must
have been in the right area.

But since my last post about this, I have further considered this, and since my
computer still has Windows for Workgroups & Dos 6.22 and also DR Dos, then
partitians larger than 2Gb may end up causing me problems anyhow since I do
still need them ocasionally (they're much more stable than Win95).

Thanks for all your help Vincent, I think I'm stuck with 2Gb partitions though,
oh well, that's more than my whole HD is now.


Pete



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